8th ENCATC Working Group on Evaluation

Ferdinand Richard has been the founder/director of A.M.I. association (1985 to 2017) based in Marseille. As a local cultural development platform, this originaly music-dedicated organisation proposes numerous training workshops, artists residences, festivals, a cultural micro-businesses incubator, etc... and has initiated and led a consistent international cooperation program (Africa, Arab World, Russia, Asia, Latin America).

FR is a founder-member of La Friche Belle-de-Mai/Marseille since 1992, and has been its deputy-director for 8 years, under the presidence of the architect Jean Nouvel.

From 2009 to 2019, he has been the executive president of The Roberto Cimetta Fund, dedicated to artists and cultural activists mobility in the Euro-Arab-Middle East relationship, and since 2017 he is the founder-president of Global Grand Central, an international and interactive digital platform dedicated to presenting artists works and processes.

Since 2018, he is expert for Mobility First!, the Asia Europe Foundation program dedicated to the artists and cultural professionals mobility between Europe and Asia.

From 2010 to 2015, he was the first coordinator of the International Fund for Cultural Diversity/UNESCO experts panel.

Since january 2016, he is membre of the governance of the Institut du Monde Arabe in the Region Hauts-de-France (Tourcoing/France).

He was between 1996 and 1999 the president of The European Forum for the Arts and Heritage (re-named today Culture Action Europe), the largest platform of european cultural networks, and between 2001 and 2004 the president of the Orientation Board of the European Certificate in Cultural Management, delivered by The Marcel Hicter Foundation (Brussels/Belgium).

Since many years he is a lecturer in several Universities (Lyon, Grenoble, Bordeaux, Senghor/Alexandria, Fribourg, Eigabiggaku/Tokyo, John Brademas Center/New York Univ., etc...)

Since 2006, he is a collaborator/expert of the "Agenda 21 Culture" initiated by UCLG (United Cities and Local Governments), global network of local authorities.

In 2007, he has participated to the works of the Declaration de Fribourg on the Cultural Rights.

He was knighted Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2013, and has also achieved a 20-years carreer as a musician and a producer.