Advisory Board
Karl-Erik Norman
Karl-Erik Norrman is the founder (2002) and Secretary-General of the European Cultural Parliament (ECP). The ECP initiates projects and workshops, meets in plenary sessions in different European cities each year and discusses broad European themes, such as Democracy, Intercultural dialogue, European Cohesion, Media quality, etc.
As a Swedish diplomat for 30 years, he served i. a. in Moscow, Peking, Geneva, and Rome, dealing mainly with foreign policy, trade negotiations, cultural affairs, development cooperation, humanitarian affairs, and the United Nations.
Norrman has also been an opera soloist (tenor) and is the author of more than 30 books, i. a. about Democracy (“The Crisis of Democracy”, in Swedish 2008), World Population matters (2012), Germany, China, India, Mongolia, UN, theatre, opera, design, food, European identities, and football. His latest production is an audiobook in English about Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi.
He is a lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Diplomacy, ICD, Berlin, and participates in the public debate in Swedish, German, British, Scandinavian and other International media and conferences.
Claire Fox
Claire Fox is the director of the Academy of Ideas, which she established to create a public space where ideas can be contested without constraint.
She convenes the yearly Battle of Ideas festival and initiated The Academy of Ideas Debating Matters Competition) for sixth-formers. She also co-founded the IoI’s residential summer school The Academy, with the aim to demonstrate ‘university as it should be’.
She is a panelist on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze and is regularly invited to comment on developments in culture, education, media, and free speech issues on TV and radio programmes in the UK such as Newsnight and Any Questions?
Claire is a columnist for TES (Times Education Supplement) and MJ (Municipal Journal). She is author of a new book on free speech, entitled I Find That Offensive (Biteback) and No Strings Attached! Why arts funding should say no to instrumentalism (Arts&Business).
Claire is a fellow of Wellington College, an executive board member of the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR), UCL, and is involved at a board level in the international debate network, Time To Talk.
Peter Hanke
Peter has dedicated over a decade to exploring links between leadership, innovation and music performance. He provides specialist leadership-coaching workshops in executive education across Europe and the US through an innovative program with a deep, enduring impact.
In 2008 Peter was honored with an ongoing Associate Fellowship at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University, and has been an External Associate Professor at Copenhagen University since 2009. He held the post of Artistic Director at the Centre for Art and Leadership with the Copenhagen Business School from 2003 – 2006.
Following several years of experience as Producer with The Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Executive Director of theatre company Hotel Pro Forma and the Art Museum Arken, he established Exart Performances. Exart Performances aims to communicate the experience, knowledge, and techniques of performing arts in a leadership context.
Peter is also a member of the European Cultural Parliament and was awarded the Einar Hansen’s Research Award in 2005. His first book ‘Performance & Lederskab’ (Danish) was published in 2008.