Opening Speeches
Yetnebersh Nigussie, a lawyer and human rights activist, and Paul Dujardin, the Director of “Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts”, will illuminate this year’s topic InEquality from different perspectives. They will lay the foundation for an intensive and interdisciplinary exchange during the Seminar Week and for the Symposia of the European Forum Alpbach 2015.
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Paul DUJARDIN
Chief Executive Officer and Artistic Director, BOZAR - Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
1988-1993 | Founder and CEO of Ars Musica |
1986 | Master of Arts in History of Art and Archaeology, Vrije Universiteit Brussels |
1987 | Special Master's Degree Management Sciences FIM, VLEKHO, Brussels |
1992 | General Manager of the Brussels Philharmonic Society, Brussels |
Co-administrator, Artistic Direction; Programming of the National Orchestra of Belgium, Brussels | |
1996- 2002 | Secretary and Treasurer, Brussels Philharmonic Society |
since 2002 | CEO and Artistic Director, Centre for Fine Arts of Brussels |
since 2013 | President, the International Music Council, Paris |
Yetnebersh NIGUSSIE
Executive Director, ECDD - Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development, Addis Ababa
2002-2004 | Public relations and Chairperson, Anti-AIDS movement, Addis Ababa University |
2003-2007 | Chairperson, Ethiopian National Association of the Blind Women's Wing |
2004-2005 | Chairperson, Blind Students Association of Addis Ababa University |
2005 | Co-Founder, ECDD - Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development, Addis Ababa |
2005-2006 | Founder and First President, Addis Ababa University Female Students Association, Addis Ababa |
2006-2009 | Member, Committee of Experts on Blind Women, African Union of the Blind |
Training and Advocacy Officer, ECDD - Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development, Addis Ababa | |
since 2007 | Public Relations Officer, National Paralympics Committee |
2009-2013 | Program Manager, Economic Empowerment, ECDD - Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development, Addis Ababa |
2013-2014 | Good Will Ambassador, National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Committee |
since 2013 | Executive Director, ECDD - Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development, Addis Ababa |