Dr. Gabriela Mocan is a cultural producer, curator and academic with 10+ years’ experience in cultural diplomacy and arts management. She lectures at the Babes-Bolyai University in Romania, is President and Strategy Consultant of the Vienna-based Arts and Cultural Management Conference and, until 2019,
she served as Head of Literature, Architecture and the Arts at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London. With a PhD in Cultural Studies/Philology and specialist training in Cultural Leadership, her research is focused on the fields of identity studies, cultural diplomacy, arts management, translation, and migration. Her most notable projects include award-winning exhibitions – ‘Untamed Skin’ (2015) and ‘Found. Lost. Found’ (2016) at the London Fashion Week, ground-breaking literary events – ‘Romania Rocks’, the first Romanian-British literary festival ever organised in the UK (2020), and bridge- building initiatives – ‘Mapping East-West’, a series of cross-border and inter-art dialogues developed in collaboration with UK-based ISP Events (2023). Dr. Mocan is a published poet and translator and, over
the years, she collaborated with organisations in the UK, Romania and the USA, taking on various leadership, editorial, educational and strategic communications roles.