Tim Curtis

Tim Curtis

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 since January 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.

He has been working in the field of culture and sustainable development 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, for which he did extensive ethnographic research among the Na’hai speakers of Malakula, Republic of Vanuatu.

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    UNESCO New Delhi Regional Office for South Asia
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    Director and Representative
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