Cultures and Globalization: Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance

About

Helmut K. Anheier PhD is President and Dean at the Hertie School of Governance and holds a chair of sociology at Heidelberg University. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1986 was a senior researcher at John Hopkins School of Public Policy Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLAs Luskin School of Public Affairs and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Anheier founded and directed the Centre for Civil Society at LSE the Center for Civil Society at UCLA and the Center for Social Investment at Heidelberg. Before embarking on an academic career he served as social affairs officer to the United Nations.  He is author of over 400 publications and won various international prizes and recognitions for his scholarship. Amongst his recent book publications are Nonprofit Organizations - Theory Management Policy (London: Routledge 2014) A Versatile American Institution: The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations with David Hammack (Washington DC: Brookings 2013) and The Global Studies Encyclopedia with Mark Juergensmeyer (5 vols Sage 2012).  He is the principal academic lead of the Hertie School´s annual Governance Report (Oxford University Press 2013-) and currently working on projects relating to indicator research social innovation and success and failure in philanthropy. Yudhishthir Raj Isar is an independent analyst advisor and public speaker who straddles different worlds of cultural theory experience and practice. He is Professor of Cultural Policy Studies at The American University of Paris and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society University of Western Sydney. He has also been maître de conference at Sciences Po Paris. Professor Isar is co-editor of the Cultures and Globalization Series (SAGE). He is a trustee of civil society cultural organisations and consultant to international organisations and foundations and Past President of Culture Action Europe. Earlier at UNESCO where he served from 1973 to 2002 he was notably Executive Secretary of the World Commission on Culture and Development and Director of the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture.