Governing Board
Members:
Chairperson
ZHANG Xu
Member of the leadership and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China
Committees:
WANG Chenyang
Director-General, Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China
Representative
Chinese National Commission for UNESCO
SHIMATANI Hiroyuki
President, National Institutes for Cultural Heritage in Japan
Kyu-yun JUNG
Director of World Heritage Division, Cultural Heritage Administration Republic of Korea
Himalchuli GURUNG
Programme Specialist for Culture, UNESCO Office in Beijing
WANG Fuzhou
Vice President of Chinese National Academy of Arts; Director-General, China National Center for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage
WEN Rihuan
Professor and Researcher, School of the Chinese Minority Literature and Language, Minzu University of China
Mounir BOUCHENAKI
Advisor to the Director-General of UNESCO for Cultural Heritage
BAMO Qubumo
Vice President, China Folklore Society
Gao Bingzhong
Professor, Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Normal University; Director of Academic Committee, Beijing Normal University
Liang Bin
Director-General, International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO
Former Committee Members:
Wang Wenzhang
President of Chinese National Academy of Arts
Former vice Minister, Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China
Yu Qun
Member of the leading Party group of the State Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China
Zhang Aiping
Director-General, Bureau for External Cultural Relations, Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China
Pu Tong
Former Deputy Director-General, Bureau for External Cultural Relations, Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China
Zhai Deyu
Deputy Director-General, Bureau for External Cultural Relations, Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China
Park Hee-Ung
Director, International Affairs Division, Cultural Heritage Administration, Republic of Korea
Yi Kyung
Hoon Director, International Affairs Division, Cultural Heritage Administration, Republic of Korea
Yang Zhi
Former Director-General, International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO
Xu Rong
Former Director-General, International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO
Timothy Curtis
Chief of Culture Unit, UNESCO Bangkok Office
Kim Yeonsoo
Director, International Affairs Division, Cultural Heritage Administration, Republic of Korea
Du Yue
Secretary-General, Chinese National Commission for UNESCO
Johei Sasaki
President, National Institution for Cultural Heritage, Japan
Nam Sang-bum
Director of World Heritage Team, Cultural Heritage Administration Republic of Korea
Lv Pintian
Executive Vice President and Researcher, Chinese National Academy of Arts,
Director-General, Graduate School of Chinese National Academy of Arts
CHEN Tong
Director General, Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, P.R.China
Matsumura Keiji
President, Independent Administrative Institution National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, Japan;
Director General, Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
Dongdae KIM
Director of World Heritage Team, Cultural Heritage Administration Republic of Korea
Sunghee YEO
Director of World Heritage Division, Cultural Heritage Administration Republic of Korea
CHAOGEJIN
Director and Researcher, Member of the Academy, Institute of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Science
Previous Meetings:
The First Session of the Governing Board of International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (February 22, 2012, Beijing)
The Second Session of the Governing Board of International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (June 17, 2013, Chengdu)
The Third Session of the Governing Board of International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (May 28, 2014, Beijing)
The Fourth Session of the Governing Board of International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (April 31, 2015, Beijing)
The Fifth Session of the Governing Board of International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (April 22, 2016, Beijing)
The Sixth Session of the Governing Board of International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (Feb 23, 2017, Beijing)
The Seventh Session of the Governing Board of International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (Dec 19, 2018, Beijing)
The Eighth Session of the Governing Board of International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (March 26, 2019)
The Ninth Session of the Governing Board of International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (Jan 14, 2020)
The Tenth Session of the Governing Board of International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (April 26, 2021)
The Eleventh Session of the Governing Board of International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (April 20, 2022)