KulturGest Bilbao-UPV/EHU Uda Ikastaroak: Cultural policies in the cities

PhD Lecturer of the Department of Political Science and Administration of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication (UPV/EHU). She has been Vice Dean of Teaching Organization of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication and Coordinator of the Degree in Political Science and Public Management. For the last five years, he has been a member of the Undergraduate Commission of the University of the Basque Country and a member of the Editorial Board of the Spanish Journal of Political Science. Public policies, especially equality policies and federal systems have been her main lines of research.

Musician, producer and cultural researcher. He is currently Delegate for Cultural Rights of the Barcelona City Council and professor of the "Master in Music Industry and Sound Studies" at the Carlos III University of Madrid.

Doctor in Pedagogy (with a doctoral thesis on municipal cultural policy), Bachelor of Psychology and Master in Cultural Management. His professional career is linked to cultural management in the local administration. He began as a cultural technician at the Eibar City Council (Gipuzkoa) and since 1990 he has worked at the Bilbao City Council, where he has held various positions: Director of the Civic Center, Coordinator of Cultural Activities in Districts, Coordinator of Cultural Activities of Bidebarrieta Kulturgunea (central library de Bilbao), Head of the Publications and Projects Section and Deputy Director of Cultural Programming. Since October 2007 he has been the Director of the Culture Area of the Bilbao City Council. He has been a member of the Basque Council of Culture. He is the author of the book “Cultura y ciudad. Manual de política cultural municipal”(Trea, 2000)

Art Historian. Since 2016, she has been a consultant on Agenda 2030. She designs, coordinates and executes training projects for different institutions such as CIFAL-UNITAR, the United Nations training and research division, the Diplomatic School of Spain, the Cultural Center of Spain in Lima or the Ministry of Education. She is currently project coordinator at the Spanish Network for Sustainable Development (REDS). He has coordinated the publications that the network has made around culture and sustainable development, among others the guide "Towards a sustainable culture". She was a Fulbright scholar at the Philadelphia University of the Arts and later head of the Education Department at the Museo Picasso Málaga from 2008 to 2016.