A Permanent Fellow of Felix Meritis in Amsterdam, teaches arts and cultural policies at Leiden University. Visiting Profesor CEU Budapest 2007 and 2008. Initiator and Chair of the European Festivals Research Project. Research Fellow, Collegium Budapest 2007, President of EFAH 2001-2004, Director of Theater Instituut Nederland 1992-2001, Professor at the University of Arts Belgrade 1978-91 and University of Amsterdam 1998-2003, Visiting Professor at the University of N. Mexico Albuquerque 1984-5 and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 1987. Author of several books, most recently Mobility of Imagination, a companion guide to international cultural cooperation (2007), Europe as a Cultural Project (2005), an exilic memoir Exercises in Exile (2004), and of many articles in journals and contributions to over 50 edited books. See www.draganklaic.eu