Dr. Lucina Jiménez (PhD, Anthropology, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana) is a leading Latin American voice in contemporary discussions of cultural rights, art education, culture of peace and political culture as a form of sustainable development. As part of the United Cities and Local Governments Culture Commission, she contributed fundamental expertise for the implementation of Agenda 21 for Culture. She has been appointed a member of the Group of Experts in Governance for Culture and Development charged with carrying out the 2005 Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expression. She also forms part of the UNESCO Group of Experts charged with theorizing “art as a global public good,” as well as the Culture Council of the Organization of Ibero-American States, which won the Princess of Asturias award in 2024 for promoting international cooperation in Latin America. As the Director of the National Center for the Arts, she worked alongside Francisco Toledo to establish Centers for Arts in San Agustin, Veracruz, Guanajuato, Salamanca, Baja California, and San Luis Potosi (which won an award for its restoration of the old penitentiary). From 2018-2024, Dr. Jiménez directed Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts and Literatures, where she promoted inclusion, diversity and equality as a transversal axis. Her awards include the Ángel de la Ciudad prize (2018) for her contributions to cultural rights and the Internazionale Universum Donna (2017), granted by the government of Switzerland for her valuable input in dialogues regarding cultures of peace globally. She is the author of Políticas culturales en transición (Cultural Politics in Transition, 2006), Democracia cultural: Una conversación a cuatro manos with Sabina Berman (Cultural Democracy: A Conversation with Four Hands, 2006), Gestión cultural y lectura en tiempos de diversidad (Cultural Management and Reading in Times of Diversity, 2012), and Arte para la Convivencia y Educación para la Paz (Art for Coexistence and Education For Peace, 2017).