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Welcoming Mr Tim Curtis, Director and UNESCO Representative, UNESCO New Delhi Regional Office
On 2 October 2023, Tim Curtis (Australia) assumed the position of Director and UNESCO Representative for the UNESCO Regional Office in New Delhi covering Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, the Maldives and Sri Lanka.
Prior to this appointment he served from Jan 2016 as the Secretary of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, overseeing both the statutory and operational dimensions of UNESCO’s global programme for Living Heritage.
Tim Curtis has been working in the field of culture and sustainable develpment in diverse international contexts for over twenty-five years, of which twenty have been with UNESCO. He served as a UNESCO programme specialist for Culture in East Africa as well as in South East Asia from 2004 until 2016.
Prior to his work with UNESCO he was involved in advocacy and academic work, and received a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, focussing on the relationship between oral history and place among the Na’hai speakers of Malakula, Republic of Vanuatu.
