Contributors

The Summit brings together the world’s leading minds in the fields of culture, the sciences and politics to discuss issues which effect nations around the world.

Find out more about our contributors for Edinburgh International Culture Summit 2022 by exploring their pages below.

Government of Kerala, India

Special Performances

Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, USA

Sustainable Fashion Content Creator, Photojournalist, Labor Rights Activist

Ahmad Al-Maziad

General Culture Authority

Akram Khan Company

Aktoty Raimkulova

Republic of Kazakhstan

King's College London

Alhaji Lai Mohammed

Alison Johnstone

Presiding Officer

Scottish Parliament

Julie’s Bicycle

Amica Dall & Charles Smith

Andreas Schleicher

Culture and Social Cohesion

Berghof Foundation, Germany

Edinburgh International Culture Summit Foundation

Culture and Education

Bank of England, UK

Anna Laura Orrico

Republic of Italy

National Youth Arts Advisory Group

Asaduzzaman Noor MP

PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH

The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics

Culture and Education

Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, USA

Basma El Husseiny

Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy)

The Netherlands

Radboud University Medical Centre

National Galleries of Scotland

KZN Philharmonic Orchestra

Bridget McConnell

Culture in Vibrant Communities

Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Geneva, Switzerland

Kulturprinsen Development Centre for Children and Youth Culture

Culture in Vibrant Communities

The Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA

Creative Carbon Scotland

Caroline Dinenage

Catarina Vaz Pinto

Catherine Calderwood

Scottish Government

Catherine Cassidy

Scottish Ballet

Catherine Holden

Charlotte Eagar

Culture and Social Cohesion

Trojan Woman Project, UK

Christopher Breward

University of Edinburgh

Special Messages

British Council

Culture in Vibrant Communities

Heron Foundation, New York, USA

Constitution Europe External Affairs and Culture Committee, Scottish Parliament

Constantin Chiriac

Sibiu International Theatre Festival

Consuelo Valdés Chadwick

Republic of Chile

Cynthia Schneider

Georgetown University

Cynthia Schneider

Special Performances

Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, Georgetown University, USA

Daisuke Matsunaga

Culture and Education

University College London, UK

Dame Meg Taylor

Papua New Guinea

Pacific Island Forum

Daniel Lubetzky

Culture and Education

KIND & Empatico, USA

Daniel McCormick

National Youth Advisory Group (NYAAG)

Danielle Cliche

UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions

Danilo Santos de Miranda

Serviço Social do Comércio (SESC)

David Chipperfield

David Chipperfield Architects

David Leventhal

Mark Morris Dance Group's Dance for PD® programme

David Strathairn

Special Performances

Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, USA

Special Performances

Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker, Rio de Janiero, Brazil

Deirdre Quarnstrom

Special Performances

Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, Georgetown University, USA

Georgetown Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics

Dr Yalinu Poya Gow

Toronto School District Board

Ea Sola Dance Company

Egly Pantelakis

Culture and Social Cohesion

Author, London, UK

Elizabeth Diller

Elsje Kibler-Vermaas

Culture and Education

Los Angeles Philharmonic, USA

Emilie Torp Henriksen

Think Tank for Youth Culture

Emma Jayne Park

Cultured Mongrel

National Youth Arts Advisory Group

Emmanuel Mthethwa

Republic of South Africa

Culture and Social Cohesion

Trojan Women Project, UK

Etan Kinsella McLennan

King's College London

Fairouz Nishanova

Aga Khan Music Programme

Fairouz Nishanova

Aga Khan Music Initiative

Faisal Abu Alhayjaa

Red Noses International

Institute for International Cultural Relations

Farrokh Derakhshani

Culture in Vibrant Communities

Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Geneva, Switzerland

Fehinti Balogun

Feras Charestan

Edinburgh International Festival

Scottish Parliament

Giovana Elizabeth Jaspersen García

State Government of Jalisco, Mexico

Graham Sheffield

British Council

Gustavo Dudamel

Special Messages

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Trojan Women Project

Her Majesty Gyalyum Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck

Special Messages

Queen Mother of Bhutan

Ismail Serageldin

Culture in Vibrant Communities

Library of Alexandria, Egypt

Republic of Croatia

The Ditchley Foundation

Creative Scotland

Jean Claude Kugener

Jerry Mateparae

New Zealand Government

Joan McAlpine MSP

Scottish Government

Edinburgh International Festival

The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics

Edinburgh International Culture Summit

Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nations

Joseph V Melillo

Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)

Kissinger Associates

Edinburgh College of Art

Justinien Tribillon

Swansea College of Art

Kathrin Deventer

European Festivals Association, Brussels, Belgium

Scottish Parliament

MIT Media Lab's Changing Places Group

Kōichi Hagiuda

The Benedetti Foundation

Environmental Activist and Artist

Culture and Social Cohesion

The Aladdin Project, France

MAU (theatre + dance)

Leo Kellgren-Parker

Likeleli Tampane

Lillian Ngo Usadi

Musician and researcher

Lisa Joan Ireland

National Youth Arts Advisory Group

Louise Richardson

University of St Andrews

Lucy O’Carroll

Aberdeen Standard Investments

Lydia Koniordou

King Abdul Aziz University

Malika Bendouda

People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria

Maria Portman Kelly

Mark Morris Dance Group's Dance for PD® Programme

United States of America

Marie-Claude Champoux

Martin Davidson

British Council

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Centre for Islamic Studies

The Stove Network

United States of America

London School of Economics and Political Science

The Nile Project

Murdo Macdonald

University of Dundee

Mediclinic International

Narcisse Mouelle Kombi

National Theatre of Scotland

Nicholas Kenyon

Barbican Centre

Nicola Benedetti

The Benedetti Foundation, Edinburgh International Festival

Culture and Education

Sistema Scotland, Stirling, UK

Nicola Sturgeon

Ofelia Omoyele Balogun

Oksana Zabuzhko

Oleksandr Tkachenko

Education Scotland

Republic of Korea

School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University

Paul Fitzpatrick

National Theatre of Scotland

Commonwealth of Australia

Northern Ireland

British Council

Performing Arts, West Kowloon Cultural District

Pawel Potorocyzn

Adam Mickiewicz Institute

Scottish Government

Prince Totto Théogène Niwenshuti

Professor Ashley Solomon

Director of Florilegium

Royal College of Music

Professor Drew Hemment

Edinburgh Future’s Institute

Professor Guy Claxton

Professor Jeffrey Sharkey

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Culture in Vibrant Communities

RMA Architects, Mumbai, India and Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Ramadan Shebani

British Council

The Future Forum of Udine

Richard Sennett

Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival

Republic of Singapore

Rosemary Nalden

Buskaid, Soweto String Project

Culture & Media Committee, Scottish Youth Parliament

Rt Hon Angus Robertson

Scottish Government

Rt Hon. Lord Stephen Parkinson of Whitley Bay

Rumaisa Zubairi

College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow

King's College London

Ruwanthie de Chickera

Department of Culture, Media and Sport, UK Government

Salim Almahruqi

Sana’a Al Froukh

Culture and Social Cohesion

Trojan Women Project, UK

Columbia University

National Theatre of Scotland

Korea Arts & Culture Education Service

Shafqat Mahmood

Islamic Republic of Pakistan

University of East Anglia

The Necessary Space

The Gambia Academy

Stephen Deuchar

British Council

Stephen Stenning

The British Council

Steven Guilbeault

Sunil Wijesiriwardena

Sybille Kastner

Lehmbruck Museum

Symone Hutchinson

Big Noise Raploch/Sistema Scotland

Symone Hutchison

Special Performances

Big Noise Raploch, Stirling, UK

Tahlia Petrosian

Klassik Underground

Tim Crookall MLC

The Gambia Academy US

The Scottish Parliament

Culture in Vibrant Communities

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

British Council

Bhumi Collective

Volodymyr Sheiko

Ukrainian Institute

Sydney Festival

William Stirling

Culture and Social Cohesion

Trojan Women Project, UK

PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Yoshiki Takeuchi

Republic of Korea

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Joining as a Trustee is Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies and Assistant Principal for Religion and Society at the University of Edinburgh. She is known internationally as a public intellectual and is a regular commentator in the media.

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Dan Mulhall will be joining the board as a Trustee. Dan is a retired Irish diplomat, academic and published author. He is the current Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge and is a consultant with the global law firm DLA Piper.

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Also joining as a Trustee is Professor Gayle McPherson, Professor of Events and Cultural Policy and Director of the Centre for Culture, Sport and Events at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS). She is also a member of the European Cultural Parliament.

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Joining us as a Trustee is Stephen Gethins, Professor of International Affairs at the University of St Andrews. Prior to that, Stephen was MP for North East Fife, the SNP International affairs spokesperson and was twice selected to sit on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.

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Joining in the role of Chair is Shonaig Macpherson CBE, an experienced Chair and non-executive director used to working at the most senior levels of government, private, public and third sectors.

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If you're interested in attending Edinburgh International Culture Summit 2022 as media, interviews with contributors and ministers, or photo opportunities, please contact Susie Gray at susie@thecornershoppr.com or 07834 073795.

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