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EXPERT AUTHOR
MALTA
Adrian Debattista
Research associate
Adrian Debattista graduated from the University of Malta with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and later completed a MA in Arts and Cultural Management at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh after being awarded an ESF funded scholarship. His dissertation was a research project focusing on shifting identities and roles of independent live music promoters in Malta as cultural intermediaries and their mobilisation of social, cultural and symbolic capital in stakeholder management. Since 2015, he has been a research associate at the Arts Council Malta where he develops and manages the council's research programme as per its strategy, with the aim to produce a knowledge base from which effective policy recommendations can be made. Recently, Debattista was appointed by the Culture Directorate within the Ministry for Culture as a member of the working group designing and drafting Malta's next National Cultural Policy document for the years 2020-2025.
The Maltese profile was first prepared by Mario Azzopardi and updated by Azzopardi until 2006. Until 2016, the profile was updated by Anthony Attard.
Karsten Xuereb
Dr Karsten Xuereb is Executive (Research & Statistics) at Arts Council Malta. He previously conducted research for the UNESCO World Heritage Nomination Project at the Ministry for Culture and served as cultural attaché at the Maltese Representation to the EU in Brussels. Earlier, he had led preparations for Valletta 2018, the European Capital of Culture. Karsten holds a PhD from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona (2012), benefiting from a UNESCO grant and an MA from the University of Warwick (2005) as a Chevening scholar.
He lectures at the University of Malta across various departments on European and Mediterranean cultural relations, policy and practice. He sits on the scientific committee of the Phoenicians’ Cultural Route of the Council of Europe (http://fenici.net/en/).
His work, including papers, articles, videos, and radio programmes for Campus 103.7, is available at www.culturalpolicy.blog.