We are delighted to announce that Magdalena Moreno Mujica,  who is currently the Head of International Affairs at the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CNCA), Chile, will join IFACCA as General Manager and be based in Sydney, Australia, from July 2014. 
 
Having been ratified by Chile's recently appointed Minister of Culture, Claudia Barattini, Ms Moreno will work for the new administration for the first 100 days, until she relocates to Australia to take up her new position.

This is Ms Moreno's third year in the role, which is in the Minister's Cabinet.  Her achievements include having overseen all pavilion participations by Chile at the Venice  Biennale, as well as range of national commissions around the world, such as spearheading  Chile's participation in Mexico as country of honour at Guadalajara's major International Bookfair 2012.  Ms Moreno was also responsible for developing a range of international projects  and policies for the development and exchange of the arts and culture of Chile and its presentation on the world stage.  Most notably, she served as the Programme Director of IFACCA's 6th World Summit on Arts and Culture, staged in Santiago in January 2014.
 
Ms Moreno served on the board of Fundación Imagen de Chile, and from March 2012 to January 2014 she represented the CNCA on the board of IFACCA.
 
Prior to her appointment by the CNCA and move to Chile, Ms Moreno worked in Australia as CEO for Kultour, Australia's national peak body supporting cultural diversity in the arts and was a member of the National Cultural Policy Taskforce for Creative Australia. She has a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Melbourne, is an alumnus of the Asialink Leaders Program (2008) as well as the Inaugural Emerging Leaders Program 2010, Australia Council for the Arts.  In 2000, after being awarded the Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Fellowship, she undertook an internship in UNESCO (ICOM) in Paris.
 
In her new role, Ms Moreno’s responsibilities will include the development of IFACCA’s Strategic Plan for 2015-2018, building international partnerships with members and key agencies, coordination of regional activities (in particular those related to the Americas) and various policy areas, as well as a range of general management duties.

Moreno states:  "I feel privileged to be joining IFACCA and to continue the work in the area of international policy development from a Chilean and now an international perspective."