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Engaging international heritage organizations

Today, diverse international heritage organizations play fundamental roles in advancing heritage protection, advocacy, mobilization of citizens, and direct support to conservation projects. These groups collaborate in conservation and manage World Heritage places within the World Heritage system. The combined voices of the cultural and natural heritage NGO community can make a difference in protection to address the rapid pace of adaptive change that is urgently needed. The calls for their formal inclusion in the World Heritage system in order to confront and make progress on overcoming the plethora of threats facing our shared global heritage in the decades ahead.

This session is held online, and hosted from Palazzo Coppini, supported by the Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco, Firenze (Italy).

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Welcome and moderation

Jad Tabet
Architect, former World Heritage Committee member (Lebanon)

Maaike Goedkoop
General Secretary at OurWorldHeritage

Opening statements

Divay Gupta
Principal Director, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH)

Nada Hosking
Executive Director, Global Heritage Fund

Bénédicte de Montlaur
President, World Monuments Fund

Alexandra Warr
Head of International Strategy, Historic England

Carlota Marijuán Rodríguez and Miruna Gaman
The European Students' Association for Cultural Heritage (ESACH)

Panel discussion with commentary remarks by

Jihon Kim
Sr. Program Specialist, Korean National Commission for UNESCO

Nada Hosking is executive director of Global Heritage Fund and is responsible for the strategy and implementation of its mission to positively transform communities by investing in cultural heritage. Nada previously served as director of programs and partnerships. During her tenure, she developed and led multiple international heritage projects while building strong partnerships and collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders from governments to local communities, as well as the private sector. Nada brings a strong nonprofit background to Global Heritage Fund from her work at Global Fund for Women, where she supported more than a hundred grantees and advisors in the MENA region working to provide women with economic opportunities and independence, improve their health and reproductive rights, and increase girls’ access to education. Nada is a trained archeologist and a National Geographic Explorer. A dual citizen of Morocco and the U.S., she has worked and lived in many regions of the world. She is fluent in English, French, and Arabic.

Divay Gupta is a Heritage Conservation & Management expert with more than 25 years of experience. He heads the Architectural Heritage Division of INTACH, New Delhi. An Alumni of ICCROM, University of Birmingham & School of Planning & Architecture, he has been part of several prestigious projects in UK, USA, India, Afghanistan, Nepal and Cambodia. His restoration projects in Ladakh have won the SA UNESCO awards of Merit & Excellence. He is member of the ICC PV Govt of Cambodia, National Culture Fund and Advisory committee on World Heritage Matters to ASI, Government of India. He was also a visiting faculty and a member on the board of studies of Department of Architecture Conservation at SPA New Delhi