Kelly Diapouli is the founder and director of Busart, an independent organization that works as a channel of communication between Greek artists and the international art scene. She was also an international relations manager at the Hellenic Culture Organization, responsible for the creation of a network for the promotion of performing arts. She has attended the European Festivals Association’s Atelier for Young Festival Managers. She is a scholar of the Onassis and Fulbright Foundations. She holds seminars in Greece on networking, cultural policy and programming and she cooperated with many Greek companies, both as production manager and as dramaturge. She holds a degree in theater studies from the University of Athens, Greece and an M.A. in European cultural policy and administration from the University of Warwick, UK.