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Anna Villarroya
Associate professor
Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Director of the Centre for Information, Communication and Culture at the University of Barcelona (UB). She regularly teaches courses on the economics of culture and cultural policies. Her main research interests include cultural policies, women and culture, artists’ labour markets, and cultural participation.
She currently serves as President of the European Association of Cultural Researchers (ERICarts Network). Anna is also the co-Principal Investigator of the UB project Gender Perspective in Information and Media Studies (GENDIMS), and co-author of the profile for Spain in the Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends.
She has published extensively in international journals such as the Journal of Cultural Economics, Creative Industries Journal, The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, European Journal of Women's Studies, Cultural Trends, and the International Journal of Cultural Policy. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Cultural Management and Policy.
Anna has also contributed her research to numerous international organizations (UNESCO, UCGL, World Bank, Council of Europe, ERICarts, etc.) and national institutions (Spanish Ministry of Culture, Catalan Department of Culture, “la Caixa” Social Observatory, Fundació Carulla, among others).
Anna Villarroya is currently the Chair of the Board of the Compendium Association.
Victoria Ateca-Amestoy
Associate professor
Victoria Ateca-Amestoy is an associate professor in the Department of Economic Analysis II in the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). She has worked in the design and management of cultural projects and her research interests are cultural economics, behavioral economics and social indicators. She has published research papers in Economics Bulletin, The Journal of Socio Economics, Journal of Cultural Economics, Social Indicators Research, Estudios de Economía Aplicada, Cuadernos Económicos del ICE, and has contributed to handbooks on the economics of leisure and on the economics of cultural heritage. She has also coordinated international and national research projects on the determinants of cultural participation and on cultural statistics. She is a member of the executive board of the Association for Cultural Economics International and of the Asociación Española de Gestores de Patrimonio Cultural.
Until 2007, multiple authors contributed to the Spanish profile over the years: Lluís Bonet, Pau Rausell, Emmanuel Négrier, Jesús Prieto, Víctor Fernández, Juan Prieto, Santiago Álvarez, Xavier Fina, Rubén Gutiérrez, Cristina Martín and Jaime Otero.
Pedro Pérez Rothstein
Pedro Pérez Rothstein studied Political Science at the University of Barcelona, followed by an MA in Cultural Management. His dissertation on the Public Value of Alternative Theatres won an award from the Spanish Society of Authors and Writers (SGAE) in 2017. He is also a theatre director and dramaturg, having obtained an MA in Dramatic Writing from the University of the Arts London (UAL) in 2019. Currently, he is PhD Drama candidate at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) with the support of a Postgraduate International Fellowship from “la Caixa” Foundation. His doctoral research focuses on the links between theatres, cities, and mental health, within the broad field of arts, culture, and health, by looking at case studies in Brazil, Spain, and the UK.