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europe > conference > speakers  We would like to thank all speakers who took part in the conference. speakers Christine Atkinson, Deputy Permanent Delegate, UK Delegation to UNESCO
Deputy Permanent Delegate for the UK to UNESCO since 2001, where she has experienced negotiations on three cultural conventions (underwater heritage, intangible heritage and cultural diversity). After seven years at the British Museum, Christine worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and then the Department for International Development, from where she was posted to the UK Delegation to UNESCO.
Catherine Giffard, Assistant Director of teaching and artistic practice at the French Ministry of Culture and Communication’s Department of Music, Dance, Theatre and Entertainment
Catherine Giffard is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Public Institution of Research and Higher Education) in Fontenay-aux-Roses and of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (French National School of Public Administration). She holds the agrégation (an advanced teaching accreditation) in Arts and Humanities.
She began her teaching career teaching French as a foreign language at the University of Algiers from 1976 to 1978 and subsequently taught at the Albert Camus lower secondary school in Brunoy, Ile-de France region.
Following this, she joined the Department of Libraries, Museums and Scientific and Technical Information at the French Ministry of Education, where she worked from 1983 to 1987.
Between 1987 and 1997, Catherine held various posts within the Ministry of Culture, firstly at the Department of Music and Dance and, later, as deputy director in the Ile-de-France region and then director in the Franche-Comté region.
In 1997, she returned to the French Ministry of Education where she worked in the school safety monitoring centre and then at the establishing body for the French National Institute of Art History, before being appointed to the task force for artistic education and cultural action in 2000.
Since January 2002, Catherine has been Assistant Director of teaching and artistic practice at the French Ministry of Culture and Communication’s Department of Music, Dance, Theatre and Entertainment.
Christopher Gordon, European Cultural Policy expert
Christopher Gordon is an independent arts consultant, who was formerly Chief Executive of the English Regional Arts Boards consortium, and Director of the Council of Regional Arts Associations in England. Prior to that, he was County Arts Officer for Hampshire, Senior Arts Officer at the London Borough of Camden, and a music officer at the Arts Council of Great Britain.
He chaired the Council of Europe’s evaluation of cultural policy in Latvia (1998), and was Rapporteur of the expert group examining Italy (published 1995) and Cyprus (2004). UNESCO in 2001 published his critical review of the cultural policy evaluation process. He was Treasurer of the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage (EFAH) for three years. Since becoming freelance, his projects have included work for the European Cultural Foundation (in the former Jugoslavia) and the European Union (research into cultural policy and social inclusion).
Christopher is president of the Advisory Board of the Fondazione Fitzcarraldo (Turin), and Vice-Chair of the Brussels-based Fondation Marcel Hicter. Locally, he is a Council member of the University of Southampton, Chair of the Hampshire Sculpture Trust, and on Winchester Cathedral’s Fabric Committee. A visiting professor at the Universities of Bologna and Turin, Christopher is also an Honorary Fellow in cultural policy at the Universities of Warwick and Northumbria. Nigel Harding, International Guild of Knot Tyers Thomas Hauger, Secretary General, DATS - Danish Amateur Theatre Association
Born 1944. Involved in theatre since he was 7 years old. Has been acting, organising and are still directing Amateuer theatre on a local basis.
Became involved actively in DATS – Danish Amateuer Theatre Association – in 1970 and have had a lot of different political commitments in the Association.
From 1987 – 1995 President of DATS and since 1996 employed as the Secretary General of DATS.
From 1995 – 1999 World President of aita/iata International Amateuer Theatre Association. From 1999 serving as voluntary Secretary General of NEATA – North European Theatre Alliance. Professionally trained as a teacher and has worked as teacher, theatre teacher at a youth boarding school, drama in education and theatre teacher at a training college for leisure time pedagogues, health education consultant, manager of a Occupational Health Service Centre, Manager of a local TV station, commissioning editor for children and youth at a national TV- network, freelance TV-producer for 4 different networks and finally 9 years as Secretary General for DATS –Danish Amateuer Theatre Association.
In the spare time: trumpet with Jazz Big Band Ribe, theatre and golf. Roger Hill, President, National Association of Youth Theatres
Director, Lecturer, Arts Advisor, Broadcaster, Writer, Performer
As a climax to three years involvement with the Council of Europe’s “New Information Technologies and the Young” programme, “The Arts, Commercial Culture and Young People: factors Affecting Young People’s Participation In Artistic and Cultural Programmes.” - commissioned by the Council of Europe Directorate of Education Culture and Sport – 1997-8, the design and administration of a web-site to accumulate the creative contributions of young Europeans, and the running of a “Workshop” dealing with this work at the culminating Conference in Strasbourg on November 19-20th 2001.
Glenys Kinnock, Member of the European Parliament for Wales
Born in 1944, Glenys Kinnock was educated at Holyhead Comprehensive School and graduated from the University of Wales College Cardiff in education and history. She has been a teacher in secondary, primary, infant and nursery schools.
Glenys was elected to the European Parliament in 1994 and re-elected in 1999 and 2004. She now represents Wales and is a Member of the European Parliament's Development and Co-operation Committee.
She is Co-President of the African, Caribbean and Pacific / EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and Labour Party Spokesperson on International Development in the European Parliament.
Glenys is President of One World Action, the Development NGO. She is also Patron of the Drop the Debt Campaign, Vice President of Parliamentarians for Global Action, Board Member International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Board Member World Parliamentarian Magazine and a Council Member of Voluntary Service Overseas.
Mrs Kinnock is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, she is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales College Newport, the University of Wales Bangor and holds Honorary Doctorates from Thames Valley University, Brunel University and Kingston University.
Glenys married the Rt. Hon Neil Kinnock in 1967, now Vice President of the European Commission, and they have two children and three grandchildren.
Lou Larens, singer
Lou Laurens is a singer, composer and choirleader, and is based in West Wales. Classically trained, she has also trained and worked within other musical traditions, including music theatre, folk and early music, and has lectured in sonic arts and music. She is particularly interested in performance which challenges traditional audience/performer roles.
Currently, Lou is collaborating with artist Jacob Whittaker on a project which investigates the changing future of the Welsh Chapel using video, sound installation and community choirs.
Euros Lewis
Founder and, for twenty years until recently, Director of Theatr Felinfach in central Ceredigion. Euros currently co-ordinates the work of Y Ffwrwm, a think-tank and ginger group developing policies to address the crisis of rural communities in modern Wales. The work of both organisations, in mobilising the energies and creative capacity not only of young people, but of the entire community, is already almost legendary.
Brendan McDonnell, Director, Community Evaluation Northern Ireland Ioan Pop, traditional musician from Maramures region of Romania
Ioan is one of the leading traditional musicians of Maramureş, a region in the north of Romania close to the border with Ukraine. Largely surrounded by mountains, Maramureş escaped much of the collectivisation and standardisation during the communist era, and retains an extremely vibrant rural culture. Ioan is Director of an institute set up to preserve and celebrate this culture, and ensure its development in the 21st century, and organiser of an annual festival of folk arts and music which moves from village to village.
Alun Pugh, Assembly Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport
Alun Pugh is a coal miner’s son from the Rhondda. He was educated at Tonypandy Grammar School before spells at University yielded a Business Finance degree and Post Graduate qualifications in Business Finance, Computer Science and Education. Before his election, he held senior posts at Coleg Llandrillo and West Cheshire College.
Mr Pugh is currently the Assembly Minister for Culture , Welsh Language and Sport and has learnt Welsh and German in evening classes. He has a reputation as a hard working constituency AM and relaxes by climbing mountains and riding his bicycle. He once rode the 200 miles from Colwyn Bay to Cardiff Bay to raise money for cancer charities.
Aled Rhys-Jones, Conference Chair
Aled Rhys-Jones is Director of Drama Association of Wales and chairs the Voluntary Arts Wales Committee. Aled is totally dedicated to improving the quality of participation in and access to non-professional theatre with a detailed personal knowledge and commitment of the funding requirements, availability, and the use of resources. His knowledge is invaluable to VAN in developing and extending its role over the whole amateur cultural range in a progressive practical manner linking it firstly nationally throughout Great Britain with an awareness of the European and world scene.
Aled is Chair of Voluntary Arts Wales Committee and a leading voice in the European Network for the Voluntary/Amateur Arts.
Vojko Stopar, Head of International Department, Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities
Vojko Stopar was born in 1953 in Ljubljana, he studied literature and sociology at the University of Ljubljana. From 1981 to 1997 he worked as an adviser and than secretary general of the Union of Cultural Societies of Slovenia. He was also president of Governing Board of Slovenian Public Broadcaster RTVS (1994 – 1998).
From 1998 to 2002: director of the Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities.
From 2002 to 2004: State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
From 2005 he works as international coordinator and than head of international department of the Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities.
Main areas of work
Culture: strengthening network of cultural societies, promoting socio cultural activities, providing access of cultural goods and conditions for creativity in all communities and regions, cultural education, cooperation among governmental and non-governmental organisations.
Media: preservation of media pluralism, promotion of cultural creativity in the mass media and strengthening culture of public dialog.
Jan Symon, Photographer working in Brno
Jan is from Brno, capital city of Moravia in the eastern Czech Republic. Having had some of his education in Germany and the UK, Jan returned to Brno to become a full-time photographer, and to lecture part-time in photography at the university there. He has for some years been documenting the lives of Gypsies and other minority groups, and has also worked as a portrait photographer, covering conferences and other gatherings. Since his return to Brno, Jan has been a member of a number of voluntary cultural organisations, working to raise environmental awareness and also to secure the rights of immigrants and minorities. Peter Tyndall, Chief Executive, Arts Council Wales
Peter Tyndall has been Chief Executive of The Arts Council of Wales since 2001. He has led a major process of change including the implementation of a new regionalised structure.
Peter is strongly committed to developing world-class arts for the people of Wales within a strategic context. His vision for ACW encompasses a dual emphasis on world-class quality and access for all. He believes that the arts can make a major contribution to the development of Wales helping to create employment, build communities, support the Welsh language and regenerate our built environment. Above all, he wants to see a Wales which values and celebrates creativity and which is internationally recognised for the quality of its arts and its artists.
Prior to joining ACW, Peter was Head of Education, Training and Cultural Affairs for the Welsh Local Government Association.
Originally from Dublin, Peter has lived and worked in Wales for more than 25 years.
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