Corina Suteu is currently director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York. She is a researcher and consultant in the fields of cultural policies, cultural management and international cultural cooperation. Ms. Suteu is also the founder and president of the ECUMEST Association in Bucharest. Formerly, she was the head of the Cultural Management Unit of the Institut de l'homme et de la technolgie in Nantes, and president of the European Forum of Cultural Networks. She has worked extensively as an independent trainer, consultant and researcher in the fields of cultural cooperation and cultural management and policies in Europe. She co-chaired Cultural Institutions in Transition and was a member of its planning meeting (2002 - 2004).