Supporting Inclusive Leadership

Summary

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A Research Scholar on the future of coaching in Les Joynes, PhD supports today’s leaders in creative problem-solving in the future of work. Les has initiated mentoring and coaching at organizations in the US, Australia and as Fulbright Senior Scholar in India has initiated India’s first coaching program to support tribal communities. Les is recipient of the Erasmus Scholarship in France (1995), Monbusho (MeXT) Fellowship in Japan (1997-2001), US Public Diplomacy Awards for China (2017), Mongolia (2014) and the Fulbright Academic & Professional Excellence Award (2022). Professionally trained in coaching at New York University, Les brings a background serving global organizations since 1989.

Skill Sets

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• Collaborating with diverse teams to develop strategic goals to identify current and future needs of membership

• Supporting professionals in the arts and education in universities and conferences

• Managing multi-stage projects in art education and international cooperation

Education

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2015-2017 Post-Doctorate Cultural interfaces with indigenous communities, University of São Paulo, Brazil

2008-2012 PhD Exploring Models for intercultural cooperation, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

1999-2001 MA Japan Ministry of Education Scholar, Musashino Art University, Tokyo

1996-1996 MA Creative Goldsmiths College, University of London, London

1988-1989 MBA Specialised in Organizational Strategy, California State University, CA

1986-1988 M.Sc Management of international organizations, Boston University, Boston

1984-1986 BA Honors: European History and Languages, Boston University, Boston

Training in Mentoring and Coaching

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2020-pres Coach Training Ongoing ICF Professional Practices Training, ICF, New York

2021-2021 Coach Training ICF Group Coaching, GCHQ, New York

2020-2020 Mentor Training GoldAward Mentor Program, University of London, UK

2019-2019 Coach Training ICF training School of Professional Studies New York University, New York

Coaching and Mentoring Experience

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International Coaching Federation (NYC), New York, NY 2023-present

DEI mentor coach. Mentoring professional coaches to support teams implementing DE&I programs.

Almaworks, Start up Lab, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY 2021 -present

Start up entrepreneurship coach and mentor.

Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY 2019-present

Columbia Leadership Coach. Scholar on Coaching and the Future of Work. MFA Coaching to future teachers in the arts

The Highland Institute, Kohima, India, 2022-present

Initiated India’s first coaching model to serve tribal communities (Nagaland)

University of Melbourne, Australia Melbourne, Australia 2020-present

Lead, Coaching to PhDs, Victorian School of the Arts, University of Melbourne

Yale University New Haven, CT, 2019

Creative Industry Leadership Coaching Yale Museum of British Art

Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London London, UK2015

Masterclass to PhDs on intercultural collaboration

University of Lincoln Lincoln, UK 2015

Mentoring to BFA and MFA students

College Arts Association New York, NY 2009 - present

Coach and Mentor to Artists Education Professionals 

University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 2005, 2006

Mentoring to BFA and MFA students

Private clients in the Creative Industries New York, NY 2000

Professional Affiliations

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California State University Coaching Program

Columbia University Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship

Fulbright Mentoring Program

GCHQ - Group Coaching Program

Graduate School alliance for Education in Coaching, Member

Highland Institute, India

International Coaching Federation Membership New York (Membership Ambassador)

International Coaching Federation Membership New York (DEI Coaching Mentor)

New York University School of Professional Studies Professional Coaching Program

University of London GoldAward Meeting Program

University of Melbourne, Australia

Yale Museums

Academic Appointments and Research

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2022-2022 Fulbright Visiting Associate Professor Visva Bharati University West Bengal, India. School of the Arts and Department of Art History. Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award. Lectures and workshops on Contemporary Art, Aesthetics, and Curating.

2022-2022 Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts New Delhi, India. Fulbright Senior Research Scholar. Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award. Lectures and workshops on Contemporary art and Aesthetics. As Senior Scholar, led research and lectures at universities in India and Sri Lanka. Lectures including workshops on Contemporary Art and Aesthetics. 

2013-2019 Renmin University of China Beijing, China. Professor of Record Modern and Contemporary Art History since 1900. Professor of Record Experimental Art (Experiential Learning in Artistic Research). Renmin University Teaching Merit Award (2017).

2008-2023 Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY. Research Scholar on Leadership in Higher Education Leading new scholarship in the futures of education and leadership at Teachers College; Teaching coaching skills to future leaders at Columbia Business School MBA Program. Columbia Business School (2019-present); Leading research on Art and Intercultural Education (2018-2022), Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics in the Department of Philosophy (2010-2011); and Contemporary Art Practices and Theory, School of the Arts (2008-2010). Lectures at Teachers College.                                    

2014-present Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Fulbright-Hays Award Washington DC. Recipient of Fulbright-Hays Awards for Mongolia and China. Directed the first US-China collaboration in performance. Supervised filmmaking team creating innovative performances at Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum featuring US-Chinese performances on the Great Wall of China. Directed first bilateral US-Mongolian research and exhibition on performance, arts and music. Currently building South Asian Arts Research Network.

2015-present University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia. Senior Editor and Member of the Editorial Board, ProjectAnywhere, 2015-present. Supporting Editorial Board members from the US, UK, Australia, Germany supporting multi-lateral events, peer-reviewed journal supporting advanced scholarship.

2020-present University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Victorian School of the Arts. Coaching Lead, Doctoral / PhD Coaching to the School of the Arts.

2015-2015 University of the Arts London (UAL) London, UK. Chelsea College of Art and Design Fellow and Doctoral Master Class Instructor Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) Master Class on Artistic Research and Site Specific Art for PhD Students at UAL. Research on intercultural collaboration in the arts. Supervisor: Professor Toshio Watanabe, Program Director

1998-2001 Lecturer, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan. School of Art and Department of Sculpture. BA Fine Art Tutor Department of Sculpture, School of Art Japan Ministry of Education and Culture Full Scholarship (Monbusho Award)

1988-1989 Organizational Researcher on Parallel Learning Systems and Technology Transfer Models.

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA. At California State University conducted and co-published research on technology and knowledge transfer models with Dr. Abraham R. Shani on Parallel Learning Structures published in “Managing The Technology Transfer Process: The Parallel Learning Mechanism.” (Dankook University Press, 1990), Pan-Pacific Conference, Seoul.

Secondary Academic Appointments

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2018-2018 Peking University Beijing, China

Visiting Professor in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship,  Peking University Cultural Industries

Global Engagement Liaison, Peking University Department of Postdoctoral Affairs

2015-2016 Mongolia State University for Arts and Culture Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Visiting Professor and Founder American Art Lecture Series. US Department of State Sponsored Field Research Mongolia. ACMS Field Research Fellow in US-Asian cooperation in the arts. Workshop supervisor and at Mongolian National University of Education, Ulaanbaatar.

2008-2009 Bauhaus Foundation  Dessau, Germany

Bauhaus Artist Fellow and Workshop Lead. Directed BA and MA student workshops with students from Turkey, Brazil,  India, UK in Berlin and La Salle School of Art and Nanyang Academy in Singapore.

Selected Awards

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2023 Taiwan Literature Base Writer in Residence, National Museum of Taiwanese Literature, Taipei, Taiwan

2022 Scholar on US-Sri Lanka Education Collaboration, Fulbright-SCA-RTP Regional Grant, Sri Lanka

2022 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award for India

2020 US Department of State, Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs Grant

2019 US Department of State, ZERO1: Art and Technology Award

2017 Fulbright Hays US Public Diplomacy Mission China Award

2017 CEC ArtsLink Foundation Grant, St. Petersburg, Russia

2017 Renmin University of China Merit Award, Beijing, China

2016 Taiwan Ministry of Education (MOE) Scholar National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

2016 Wheatley Fellow, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK

2016 US Department of State Field Research Fellow, American Center for Mongolian Studies

2015 Fellow, UAL Research Center on Transnational Art, Identity and Nation

2014 Fulbright Hays US Public Diplomacy Award for Mongolia

2014 CEC ArtsLink Foundation Grant for Mongolia

2009 Queenstown Council, Singapore Citation Award, Singapore

2009 Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship, National Design Museum, New York

2009 Bauhaus Foundation Fellow, Dessau, Germany

2006 Nagasawa Fellow, Awaji, Japan

2001 Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture Scholar (Monbusho) (1998-2001)

1995 Erasmus Scholarship, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts, Paris

1995 King Sturge Award, London

Selected Publications

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Joynes, L et al (2025). Emerging models for teaching, evaluation and curriculum development New York: Critical Practices.

Joynes, L, (2024), Taiwan (Re) Seen: an Artist’s View on Taiwan, National Museum of Taiwanese Literature

Joynes, L (2023), The Slipperiness of Memory. Monument and the Post Soviet, University of Indiana.

Joynes, L (2023), The Slipperiness of Memory in the Post Soviet, University of Indiana

—-, Tohoku: Reflections on Memory and Disaster, Chithravathi (Magazine) Kerala, 2022.

—-, (2020) Review of Reclaiming Artists Research, Journal for Artistic Research, London (2020)

Joynes, L Vu, T et al (2018). DrawnOver: Contemporary Drawing, Vojvodina, Serbia: Museum of Contemporary Art [catalogue].

—-, (2019) “Artist-centric model in museums” in China’s Cultural Landscape by Mid-Century, Long Museum, Shanghai.

—-, (2019) “FormLAB: Interfacing Technology with Site” (2019) ISEA International Symposium of Electronic Art, Gwangju, Korea.

—-, (2018). “The Artist as Explorer,” in Going Beyond: Art as Adventure. O’Neill , R and Werner, J (eds.), Newcastle,: Cambridge Scholars.

—-, (2016). “The Artist Explorer:: Geographically Dispersed Performance” Sao Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo [post-doctoral thesis].

—-. (2015). “Arts research, Global Identity and Cooperation,” London: University of the Arts, London.

—-. (2015). “Shapeshifter” [video], Pulse/Play, New York: Pulse Art Fair and The Cultivist, New York.

—-, (2015). “FormLAB” in Anywhere v.1.(2015). Lowry, S. and Douglas, S. (eds.),Melbourne, Australia: University of Melbourne.

—-, (2015) CCTV China “Learning Chinese Calligraphy” China Central Television [interview]

—-. “The Artist as Explorer,” Washington D.C.: College Arts Association Conference.

Joynes, L and Vu, T. (2015) Les Joynes and Thomas Vu in Interview” in Draw: Artists from China at  Inside Out Art Museum, New York: LeRoy Neiman Foundation [museum catalog].

Joynes, L (2014). “FormLaboratory” in Art and Research at the Outermost Limits of Site Specificity (2014) Lowry, S and Douglas, S. (eds.). Newcastle, Australia: Univ. of Newcastle.

Joynes, L. (2014). 2014. “Nomadic and Geographically Dispersed Practice,” Chicago: College Arts Association Conference.

—-."  Multi-spatial Performance: at Bauhaus-Dessau, November 2008: RecordDances, Bühnenstudios, Bauhaus Dessau.

Joynes, L. and Basu, S (2011) Octopus, Journal for Visual Culture. Irvine: University of California Irvine.

—-.  2001) “Yuichi Higashionna at NADIF Tokyo,

—-. (1999). “Some Say They Did: Some Say They Didn’t, Contemporary Art of Yoshitomo Nara at Ginza Art Space,” New York: Art in America.

—-. (1998).“The New Pathetic. Contemporary British art in the 1990s,”Vienna: Springer.

—-. (1998). “Explorations of the Uncanny in Contemporary American Art: Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelly and David Lynch.”London: Goldsmiths, University of London. [Dissertation].

Conferences

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2024 Engaging Coaching in Organizations, College Arts Association Conference, Chicago, 2024.

2022 Memory and the Post-Soviet of Modern Russia, Non Conform Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

2022 Conference Moderator on Religions of South Asia, Fulbright Conference, New Delhi, India

2022 Threads on Threads, European Union sponsored Conference on Textiles of South Asia, Colombia, Sri Lanka

2021 Models for Coaching in Museums, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG).

2021 Artistic Research Engaged 2.0: Systems that engage art practice across borders

Art School Pedagogies 2.0 Conference, Teachers College, March-April 2021

2020 Artistic Research and Contemporary art and Mongolian Identity Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC

2020 Artistic Research and Collaboration Across Culture, College Arts Association, Chicago

2019 Artistic Research and New Pedagogies for PhD Programs

2018 New Developments in Artistic Research and Higher Education. Plenary Keynote to the School of Art PhD Program, Peking University, Beijing

2018 Art and Social Practice Chair, ProjectAnywhere, Parsons School of Art, New York

2017 US-China Collaboration in Artistic Research, Columbia University Global Center Beijing, China

2018 The Future of the Museum in China. Artist-Centered Practices. Long Museum Shanghai, China Workshop on new models for Chinese museums

2016 Interdisciplinary Research: Arts and Anthropology. Young Researchers Conference, American Center for Mongolian Studies, Mongolia

2016 Intercultural collaboration across borders, College Arts Association, New York  

2015 Cambridge University Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

2015 Young Researchers Conference, Mongolian National University for Education, Ulaanbaatar. 

2014 College Arts Association Conference, Chicago 

2013 Exploring the Borders between Site and Performance

Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Selected Lectures and Workshops

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2025 “Models for Transforming Art Education in Mongolia”, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York

2023 “Coaching in Diverse Organizations”, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

2023 “Turning the studio inside-out”, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

2023 “Contemporary Arts and Climate Change”, National Sun Yat Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2023 “Arts Models for intercultural Collaboration”, National Sun Yat Sen University, Taiwan

2022 “Rethinking UNESCO Heritage: Expansion of Durga Puja into the Modern Sphere”, MassArt, Kolkata, India

2022 “Envisioning Mentorship in Nagaland Tribal Communities”, Highland Institute, Kohima Nagaland, India

2022 “US-Indian collaboration in Education in India”, Vista-Bharati University, West Bengal, India 

2022 “Imagining the Museum of the Future”, Colombo National Museum, Colombo, Sri Lanka

2022 “Interdisciplinary practices and artistic research”, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

2022 “Collaborative arts as public diplomacy”, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

2022 “Artistic Research in Performance”, University of Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka

2022 "Curriculum Design and the Arts” (workshop), Gandhi Institute of Technology & Management, Visakh, India

2022 “Site Specificity in India”, Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal, India

2022 “Inspiring Education: engaging young people with global perspectives”, Vellammal Schools, Chennai, India

2022 “Photography and Memory of Disaster - Tohoku Reframed”, Cholamandal Artists Village, Chennai, India

2022 "Curating Site Specificity in India”, Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal, India

2021 Mutual Understanding in Underserved Communities in Colombia, US Exchange Programs.

2020 “Models to Transform arts in Mongolia” Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC

2019 ZERO1: American Arts Incubator, San Francisco, CA

2019 “Models for Intercultural Collaboration in the Arts and Culture”, Beihang University, Beijing, China

2018 “New Contemporary in China: Robert Rauschenberg in China”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

2018 “Entrepreneurship and Beyond Design Thinking in Creative Industries”, Peking University, Beijing

2018 “Pioneering Doctoral Research in the Creative Industries”, Keynote, Peking University, Beijing

2018 Art and Social Practice Chair, ProjectAnywhere Conference, Parsons School of Art, New York

2017 "Performing Cooperation between China and the US”, Columbia University Global Center Beijing, China

2018 “New models for Chinese museum management”: Long Museum Shanghai, China

2017 “Futures of US-China collaboration in the arts” US Embassy and the Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China

2017 “Curating Across Cultures”, Bard Smolny MA Curating Program, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2017 Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China

2016 Young Researchers Conference, American Center for Mongolian Studies, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

2016 “Intercultural Collaboration Across Borders” College Arts Association, New York              

2015 “Creativity as Intercultural Interface”, Teachers College, Columbia University

2015 “Performing cross-cultural spaces", Mongolian National University for Art and Culture, Ulaanbaatar

2015 “The Artist as Interface” Teachers College, Columbia University, New York

2015 “Models for Cross-cultural collaboration in Brazil and Mongolia” Cambridge University, UK

2015 Young Researchers Conference, Mongolian National University for Education, Mongolia

2015 Mongolian National University for Art and Culture, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

2015 “Artistic Research and Intercultural Collaboration”, University of the Arts London Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, UK

2014 Zanabazar National Museum of Art, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia    

2014 “Chinese arts and the foundations of Modernism” National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2014 College Arts Association Conference, Chicago, IL

2014 Chinese Art: Modern to Contemporary, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2014 “US-Mongolian Collaboration Engaging Traditional and the Contemporary” Zanabazar National Museum of Art, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia    

2013 Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

2012 “Art Studio as Classroom Live”, Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2012 “Interdisciplinary Art as Research”, Lecture to MA Fine Art Course, Kookmin University, Seoul

2012 “Exploring site and local identity”, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, South Korea

2012 "Performing the Museum,”Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2011 “Building links between university art programs and the City of New York”, Columbia University Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship/ Mayors Office of the City of New York

2010 Treignac-Projet, Correze, France

2009 “Studio as Nomadic Laboratory - Photography meets Performance”, Nanyang Academy of Art, Singapore

2009 “Performing Site”, La Salle College of Art/Nanyang Academy of Art, Singapore

2009 “Engaging Disappearing Sites”, Bauhaus Foundation, Singapore

2005 University of California Santa Barbara, CA

2005 MFA Final Year Critique, University of California Santa Barbara, California

2001 “New Contemporary: Japanese Pop Art and the Emerging Contemporary”  Otis College of Art, Los Angeles

Research on the Future of Education, and Education Exchange

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2020-2022 Columbia University New York Research scholar on the future of coaching in organizations.

2020-2022 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award New Delhi, India Research on collaboration and performance. Fulbright sponsored field research in Sri Lanka (2022).

2022-2022 Museum of Non-Conformist Art, St. Petersburg, Russia, Research on Monument and Memory and negotiating the relationship between the Soviet and the Post-Soviet.

2020-2020 Smithsonian Institution Washington DC. Presenter on US-Mongolian cooperation. Fostering intercultural cooperation and research on local diversity and identity in Mongolia.

2019-2019 US Department of State Washington DC ZERO1 Art and Technology Network San Francisco, CA

American Arts Incubator training. US DoS workshop training for cross-cultural fieldwork.

2017-2017 Fulbright-Hays US Public Diplomacy (Mission China) Award Beijing, China. Recipient of Fulbright-Hays US Public Diplomacy Award I directed the first US-China collaboration in performance. Supervised filmmaking team creating innovative performances at the Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum featuring US-Chinese performances on the Great Wall of China.

2015-pres University of Melbourne and Parsons School of Design New York, and Melbourne, Australia

Editorial Board, ProjectAnywhere, 2015-present. Executive member of the Board working with Board-members from the US, UK, Australia, UK, Germany supporting exciting global events, peer-reviewed journal supporting advanced scholarship.

2015-pres Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain London, UK. Member of the Art and Anthropology Committee (Fellow 2015-present). Responsible for scholarly journal review, building international cooperation.

1997-2022 FormLAB © London/Tokyo/New York. Founder and Principal Investigator. In 1997 I founded FormLAB at Goldsmiths College, University of London examining how art-making can become a transferable technology and shared system of processes. FormLAB is recipient of US Public Diplomacy Awards in China and Mongolia and has exhibited in Brazil, France, Singapore and South Korea.

2016-2016 American Center for Mongolian Studies Fellowship Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. As US Department of State sponsored ACMS Research Fellow initiated, planned and executed the first research on Arts Education in Mongolia. Led research team in Ulaanbaatar and liaised with US Embassy, three national universities and the Mongolian Minister of Culture. Produced comprehensive research supporting inter-university exchange between the US and Central Asia.

2014-2014 Fulbright-Hays US Public Diplomacy Award Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Recipient of the Fulbright-Hays and CEC ArtsLink Awards to lead an overland expedition Mongolia to research the nomadic Tsaatan Reindeer herding communities of Northern Mongolia. Led five -member team from Germany and Mongolia. Liaised with Cultural Affairs Specialists at US Department of State and local organizations to produce the first US-Mongolian collaborative performances.

2013-2013 Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Sao Paulo, Brazil. Research on performance and local Brazilian cultural identities, shamanism, and ritual. University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Workshop on performing identity. Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2012-2012 University of Sao Paulo Sao Paulo, Brazil. Post-doctoral research on ritual, performance, identity and transcultural collaboration in Brazil.

2011-2011 Columbia University New York, NY.Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship. Teamed with second year MBA team to advise the Mayor’s Office in the City of New York. Liaising with Accenture and MTV,  led creative initiatives for university involvement in NYC television initiatives. Conceived masterplan for NYC-wide broadcast programming involving universities and a sponsored chair for faculty.

1997-2001 Japan Ministry of Education and Culture Scholarship (MEXT) Tokyo, Japan. Conducted research on Japanese culture, aesthetics. Led curatorial and exhibition projects in Tokyo. Researched new models for undergraduate teaching. Awarded university honors.

2015-2015 Cambridge University Cambridge UK. Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities.Presenter on intercultural collaboration. Seminar on intercultural collaboration and performance arts.

2015-2016 Young Researchers Conference Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Conference Chair, 2016. Responsible for Conference with participants from eight countries. Building sustained communities of practice and professional development amongst researchers in the social and life sciences.

2008-2009 Bauhaus Foundation Germany. Producer and Choreographer. Bauhaus Foundation sponsored research on community. Directed performance series in Singapore inspired by Southeast Asian rituals.                

2007-2007 Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale Norway. Artist selection team. Artist-in-Residence centre funded by Norwegian Ministry of Culture.

1998-1998 Inaugural Taipei Biennial Tokyo, Japan. Curatorial Assistant for Inaugural Taipei Art Biennial.

1988-1989 Strategic Analysis Inc. (Europe) Brussels, Belgium. Consultant (Western Europe). Conducted more than 2000 primary interviews and authored research that facilitated global agreements.

1986-1988 Boston University Boston, MA. Advanced training in building cross-cultural cooperation within global organizations (M.Sc. 1988).

Editorial Boards

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2024 Asia Contemporaries (Senior Jury member)

2023 Tokyo Contemporaries - (Senior Jury member)

2021 CEC ArtsLink Jury Reviewer for Artists, New York

2021 CEC ArtsLink Jury Reviewer for Art Managers, Curators, New York

2015-pres Editorial Board Member for ProjectAnywhere [journal] University of Melbourne, Australia

2020-pres Art and Anthropology Committee, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain, London

2008 Nordic Artist Center, Selection Committee, Norway

2010 Harlem Arts Alliance Grant Selection Jury, New York

Affiliations

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American Center for Mongolian Studies, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

American Association of Art Museums, New York

College Arts Association, New York

Columbia University Global Centers, New York

Columbia University Graduate School of Business, New York

Explorers Club, New York, NY (Fellow)

Fulbright Alumni Network

Japan Ministry of Education and Culture MEXT Scholars Network

National Cheng Kung University, Huayu Alumnus, Tainan, Taiwan

National Postdoctoral Association, Washington DC

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain, London, UK (Fellow)

Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain, London, UK (Fellow)

Teachers College, Department of International and Transcultural Studies, Columbia University, New York

Languages

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English, French, Italian, German, Japanese. Mandarin Training.