Executive Director
- Professor Amareswar Galla
An alumnus of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Professor Galla, has been appointed in 2011 as the Editor and Producer of the flagship project and publication to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the 1972 World Heritage Convention to be launched in Kyoto, Japan, at the end of 2012.
He is the full Professor of the World Heritage and Sustainable Development at the University of Split located in the World Heritage City of Split.
He is currently working on MDGs and Small Island Development States. He provided strategic cultural leadership in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region as the first full Professor of Museum Studies in Australia at the University of Queensland, Brisbane.
Prior to that he was the full Professor and Director of Sustainable Heritage Development Programs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.
He was also a regular visitor at the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, working on the implementation of Museums and Cultural Diversity Promotion in the Netherlands; Guest Curator of International Projects with the Vietnam National Department of Cultural Heritage; and Founding Convener of the Pacific Asia Observatory for Cultural Diversity in Sustainable Heritage Development in partnership with several bodies including UNESCO.
A Trustee of the Pacific Islands Museums Association, he is the Editor-in-Chief of two academic journals: International Journal of the Inclusive Museum Chicago/Melbourne; International Journal on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability Chicago/Melbourne. Former Editor-in-Chief International Journal on Intangible Heritage Seoul/Paris.
Download Professor Galla’s short CV here [PDF]
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Download Freedom of Religion and Belief: Culture, Heritage & the Arts (PDF, 1MB)
By Amareswar Galla & Conrad Gershevitch
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