Jorge Barreto Xavier ( www.jorgebarretoxavier.com )

Currently

·       Director General, Education, Social Development and Culture, Oeiras City Council;

·       Commissioner, Oeiras bid to European Capital of  Culture 2027 (ECOC27);

·       Director, Programme on Culture, Development and Society at the Public and Social Policies Institute (IPPS-IUL);

·       Coordinator, Winter School, The Place of the City – urban development (IPPS-IUL-Aga Khan Trust For Culture);

·        Assistant Professor at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Creative Industries Management and Public Policies of Culture;

·       Associated Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL).

·       Member of the Cultural Policy Designers Network.

Past functions

·       Secretary of State of Culture, Government of Portugal, to the Prime Minister (2012–2015);

·       Director-General of Arts of the Ministry of Culture, Portugal (2008–2010);

·       Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Oeiras, in charge of Culture, Youth and Consumers Defense (2003–2005);

·       Consultant at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation on Education (2005/2008);

·       Coordinator of the Inter-ministerial Commission on Education/Culture of the Portuguese Government (2004–2005);

·       Member of the Board of the Portuguese Youth Institute (2000–2004);

·       Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Portuguese Club of Arts and Ideas (1986–2002);

·       Director and Programmer of "Common Place" – Experimentation Arts Centre (1998–2002);

·       Member of the National Council of Education (1997/2001);

·       Director of the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (BJCEM, 1992–1994) and founder and Director of the Biennial of Young Artists from Lusophone Countries (1996–2002);

·       Member of the Board and member of several national and international networks in the area of culture and education, such as the International Federation of Arts Councils and Cultural Agencies, the European Forum for Arts and Heritage, the European League of Institutes of Arts, the Informal European Theatre Meeting, the Biennale ‘Jeunes Créateurs de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée’, the European Network of the Cultural and Artistic Centre for Children and Young People, the ‘TransEuropeHalles’, the Portuguese Cultural Centre Network;

·       Independent expert for different national and international organizations, as Copenhague, European Capital of Culture (1996), Intelligence on Culture (2010),  the European Commission’s Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency – EACEA (2012);

Education

·     BA in Law, Lisbon University;

·     Postgraduate degree in Arts Administration, National Institute of       Administration;

·     Diploma of Advanced Studies in Political Sciences, Lisbon New University;

·     Preparing PhD thesis in Public Policies at ISCTE-University Institute of          Lisbon.

Publications (summary):

·       State of the Nation and public policies 2019 - less reforms, better policies ”; Edition: IPPS-IUL; Ricardo Paes Mamede and Pedro Adão e Silva (coordinators); “Cultural Creation and Cultural Enjoyment”;

·       ‘Alexandria’, Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, 2017;

·       ‘Culture in everyday life’, Porto Editora, 2016;

·       ‘The role of culture’ (coordinator), Government of Portugal, 2015;

·       ‘Art and Delinquency’ (coordinator), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2011;

·       ‘Chart of Culture of Oeiras’ (coordinator) Municipality of Oeiras, 2007;

·       ‘Arts Education, Aesthetic Education and the internalization of Knowledge’ (with Emilia Nadal), National Council of Education, 1999.