Dr. Janet Blake is Associate Professor of Human Rights Law at Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran) and is a member of the Centre of Excellence for Education for Sustainable Development based at the University. She is the Director of an NGO accredited to UNESCO’s 2003 Convention and a member of the Cultural Heritage Law Committee of the International Law Association.

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Peter Strasser studied Austrian law, European ethnology and international relations at the Universities of Innsbruck (Austria) and Nottingham (UK). After serving as curator in a museum in Austria, since 1997 he joined international organisations (UNESCO, OSCE, EU) in cultural heritage, especially in World Heritage. He was member of drafting groups for several UNESCO legal instruments (Underwater Heritage Convention 2001, Intangible Heritage Convention 2003, Recommendation on the Protection and Promotion of Museums 2015).

His recent international assignment was with OSCE/Mission in Kosovo, where we was responsible for the protection of cultural heritage (2019-22). Since 2012 he is affiliated with the Danube University Krems, were he headed the Center for Cultural Property Protection. In summer 2022 he was appointed in Krems as Professor for World Heritage and Cultural Property Protection. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and wrote some 200 publications in the field of cultural heritage protection.

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Han-sok Wang served as a professor of anthropology in the College of Social Sciences of Seoul National University for over 30 years, and is currently an emeritus professor. He specialized in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics and cognitive anthropology, and has widely studied on Korean linguaculture. He studied Korean language education and anthropology in Seoul National University, and obtained M.A and ph.D of anthropology from the UCLA Graduate School in California, U.S.A. His main academic achievements include Linguistic Ethnography of Korea: Gangwon-do(2021), Linguistic Ethnography of Korea: Chungcheongbuk-do(2016), Linguistic Ethnography of Korea: Gyeongsangbuk-do(2012), Linguistic Ethnography of Korea: Jelllanambuk-do(2010), Linguistic Ethnography of Korea 1: Preface(2009), Another Korean: An Anthropological Study on The Language Adaptation of International Marriage-based Immigrant Women(2007), Korea, Korean Culture and Korean Society(compilation, 2010), Korean Language and Korean Society(compilation, 2008), Korean Society and Forms of Address(co-authorship, 2005), Language and Society: The Ethnography of Communication(co-translation, 2009) and so forth. He was awarded Academic Research Award by Seoul National University.

Professor Wayan Windia is a researcher of the Subak Research Centre at Universitas Udayana in Bali, Indonesia. He obtained his PhD in 2002 at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, which his dissertation concerning subak system in Bali. He involved on preparations, in order to get UNESCO acknowledgement, for subak system in Bali, on 2012. His articles has been published widely in journals and books, such as : Subak Irrigation System Transformation Based on Tri Hita Karana Concept; Subak : The World Cultural Heritage; Subak : Study from Social Perspective; Subak as Agrotourism; Leadership and Democracy of Subak.

Over the last five years, he has been actively working on developing subak into agro-tourism sites, and introducing economical activities at subak organization. The goal of those activities is how to help increasing the revenue of farmers as subak members. Now he actively supervise the site of subak that has been recognized by UNESCO as world cultural heritage. And also introducing the values of subak to the students in Bali, and for other guests and foreigners who coming to Bali, especially to Udayana University.

He is working also as an expert group coordinator at Gianyar Regency on Heritage City, as a member of expert group at Denpasar City on Subak Sustainability, and also as an expert team member at Bali Province, since this year (2018) . He has been involved in some national NGO in order to sustain of Bali culture.

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Judith Farquhar conducts research on traditional medicines, popular culture, and everyday life in contemporary China. Anthropological areas of interest include medical anthropology; the anthropology of knowledge and of embodiment; science and technology studies; critical theory and cultural studies; and theories and practices of reading, writing, and translation. She is the author of Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine (1994), Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China (2002), and Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing (2012). Several of these books have been published in Chinese. She co-edited Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life (2007). Two more recent books are A Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine (2020) and Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South (2021).  She retired from the University of Chicago Department of Anthropology in 2019.

Richenel Ansano is a cultural anthropologist and healer. His past positions include being Director of Culture for Curaçao, Director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University in the USA, Director of the National Archaeological and Anthropological Memory Management of Curaçao (the national focal point for implementing the 2003 Convention), and member of cultural and heritage committees.  Richenel was Member of the CRIHAP Advisory Committee,  previous Secretary of the Dutch Caribbean ICH Working Group. He is current President of the CaribResearch Foundation, Vice President of the Regional Memory of the World Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean, and President of the Curaçao Open Foundation. He is member of the Curaçao NATCOM, and of the Dutch Caribbean ICH Working Group.  As UNESCO Facilitator for the 2003 Convention, he facilitated ICH workshops in the Caribbean, South America, Asia/Pacific, and for the NGO Forum of the Convention.