Editor

Professor Dr. Amareswar Galla

Professor Dr. Amareswar Galla

An unhyphenated IndoAustralian - was the former Vice President of Executive Board; President Asia Pacific Alliance; & Chairperson, Cross Cultural Task Force – International Council of Museums, Paris. He has a 40-year record in both Global South & North on Indigenous driven affirmative action programmes, Cultural Policies, Creativity, Urbanism, Intangible Heritage, World Heritage, Intercultural Dialogue, Heritage Tourism and SDGs. (https://inclusivemuseums.org/). Emeritus Faculty at the Australian National University in Canberra, he held full professorial positions at the Australian National University & the University of Queensland in Australia; the University of Split in Croatia; School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada & Kalinga Institute of Social sciences/Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneshwar, India. UNESCO Chair on Inclusive Museums and Sustainable Heritage Development, ANU, India (2021- April 2025). Founding Chair & Editor of the International Research Network on the Inclusive Museum (https://onmuseums.com/).

Editorial Board

  • Corazon S. Alvina, Former Director, National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
  • Dr. Laishun An, China Friendship Museum, Beijing
  • Loda Lucía Astudillo Loor, Directora, Museo de los Metales, Cuenca, Ecuador
  • Prof. Dr. Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Chair in Sustainable Development Law and Policy, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge; and Senior Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL).
  • Alissandra Cummins, Director, Barbados Museums and Historical Society, Barbados; President, International Coalition for Sites of Conscience; former President of the UNESCO Executive Board; and former President of ICOM
  • Dr. Ann Davis, Former Director, The Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Prof. Dr. Nevra Ertürk Güngör, Head of Department of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Assets, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Christine Hemmet, Responsable de l’unité patrimoniale des collections Asie, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France (Retired)
  • Abigail Hunt, Associate Professor of Heritage and Identity, University of Lincoln, UK
  • Cecilia Lazzeretti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • Prof. Dr. Marc Jacobs, UNESCO Chair in Critical Heritage Studies and the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage; Professor of Heritage Studies; Vice-Dean for Education, Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium
  • Prof. Dr. Rohit Jigyasu, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
  • Dr. Nick Merriman, Former Chief Executive, English Heritage; former Chief Executive and Director of Content at the Horniman Museum and Gardens; and former Director, Manchester Museum, UK
  • Dr. Sushree Sangita Mohanty, Heritage Studies, University of Antwerp, Belgium; Director (R&D), International Institute for the Inclusive Museum, USA/Australia/India; and & Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), India
  • Elena Montanari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Prof. Dr. Ir. Wiendu Nuryanti, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Jogjakarta; and Former Vice-Minister of Education and Culture, Indonesia
  • Geuntae Park, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
  • Dr. Kavyta Raghunandan, Leeds Beckett University, UK
  • Prof. Dr. Aude Porcedda, Department of Leisure, Culture and Tourism Studies, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
  • Prof. Dr. A.R. (Ana) Pereira Roders, UNESCO Chair on Heritage and the Reshaping of Urban Conservation for Sustainability; and Professor in Heritage and Values at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands
  • Prof. Dr. Carmen María Ramos, UNESCO Chair in Cultural Tourism (UNTREF–AAMNBA), Argentina; and Founding Member of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Network on Culture, Tourism and Development (Sorbonne University), France
  • Dr. Nancy Rocío Rueda Esteban, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Colombia
  • Adi Meretui Ratunabuabua, Former Director, Ministiry of Fijian Affairs, Fiji Islands
  • Prof. Dr. Mirjam Shatanawi, UNESCO Chair Museum in Collections, Repatriation and Interculturality, Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Dr Andrew Simpson, Office of the University Librarian (Art Gallery), Macquarie University; Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney; and Former President ICOM UMAC
  • Dr. Samuel Sidibe, Director General of the National Park; Former Director, National Museum of Mali; Former President, ICOM Mali, Bamako, Mali
  • Lina Tahan, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
  • Dr. Shahid Vawda, Former Archie Mafeje Chair in Critical Humanities and Decoloniality, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
  • Dr. Jørgen Wadum, Former Keeper of Conservation & Director of CATS, Wadum Art Technological Studies, Denmark
  • W. Richard ‘Rick’ West, Jr., Former President and CEO, Autry National Center for the American West, Los Angeles; Founding Director and Director Emeritus, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA


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