Ms Noriko AIKAWA-FAURE

• Former Director/Chief, The Intangible Cultural Heritage Section, UNESCO

• Session 3: Chair
• General Discussion and Wrap-up Session: Co-Chair

Madame Noriko Aikawa-Faure, Tokyo University graduate (Art History), doctorate candidate at University of Paris Sorbonne (Art History) and l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Social anthropology), was the former Director of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Unit of UNESCO. She developed this programme since its inception in 1992. She thus followed the whole process of the genesis and development of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. She then became a visiting professor at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo. She served between 2013 and 2017 the Agency for Cultural Affairs, the government of Japan, as Advisor for Intangible Cultural Heritage. Her research domain is the policy studies for the safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.