Global versus Local - Periphery Power Cultural Policy

11:00 – 12:30 Global versus Local Gala Koretskaya/ British Council/ Kazakhstan: Galina began her career as an account manager at Saatchi&Saatchi advertising agency in 2005 and later worked both in commercial and non-commercial sectors. In 2011 Galina completed her MA in arts management at Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno (Czech Republic) and started work at the Mayor's Office Department of culture as a specialist on development and cultural policy. Since 2014 she was Executive Director of a non-profit foundation "Almadeniet" and supervised several biggest city events of the Department of culture. Her Almadeniet team organized projects within framework of intergovernmental programme "Almaty - Cultural Capital of CIS Countries 2014". In 2014 Galina joined a working group, which has been developing concept of the cultural policy of Kazakhstan. Now Galina is Head of Arts at the British Council Kazakhstan. Malaika Toyo/ Cultural Policy Researcher/ Nigeria: Malaika Toyo has had more than 5 years experience managing projects in the field of macroeconomics policy development which has led her to work with organizations such as the United Nations, African Union, Arterial Network and African Arts Institute. With a degree in International Economics, she has amassed a rich understanding of the challenges and requirements needed in addressing policy issues in Africa. Curious about a more micro and contextual approach to sustianable development, in 2012, Malaika switched her focus to understanding the cultural dimensions of development. This led her to undergo a Masters programme in Creative and Media Enterprises at the University of Warwick.As co-founder of CaliRocks Movement and committee member of Arterial Network she is very much interested in research focusing on the African Creative Economy and the cultural policies that guide this economy. Malaika was responsible for organizing the first Arts and Culture Indaba organized by the City of Cape Town’s Arts and Culture Department. She is passionate about projecting the untapped potential of the African cultural and creative sector in address future challenges. Based in Lagos Nigeria, she now runs a White Space Creative Agency where she is constantly identifying opportunities that can empower creative talent in both the formal or informal sector of Nigeria. Monika Niki Tsiliberdi/ Ministry of Culture/ Greece: Monika Niki Tsiliberdi is the Head of the Department for Synergies and Multilateral Cooperation of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Education, and a member of the Managing Committee of the Creative Europe Programme and the OMC group of the EU on Access to Finance for the CCIs. She studied Archaeology and History of Arts at the Philosophical School of Athens University and holds a Master of Arts in Landscape Studies from the University of Leicester in Great Britain. Currently she is working on her doctorate thesis on cultural and creative clusters in Athens at Panteion University.