SAFEGUARDING OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE: THE CHALLENGES OF

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN A GLOBAL WORLD

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Safeguarding Our Cultural Heritage: The Challenges of International Cooperation in a Global World

SAFEGUARDING OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE: THE CHALLENGES OF

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN A GLOBAL WORLD

The protection of cultural heritage is an imperative for all nations, as it provides a sense of identity to communities worldwide and is the expression of humankind’s most notable achievements. Cultural heritage is an asset that can help revive economies in the form of cultural tourism, fostering cultural industries and inspiring both diversity and creativity. Thus, threats to this heritage are not only a cultural loss, but also hinder the potential for the sustainable development of societies. In today´s world, globalization poses new challenges to all of the parties involved in preserving this legacy. Spain, the country with the third highest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, is experienced in confronting some of these challenges. However, given the current instability in neighboring regions, Spain and other southern border countries of the European Union face growing demands to assure the preservation of our shared cultural heritage. What are the most pressing problems? What challenges do law enforcement agencies face regarding their duties? How do countries handle this responsibility? What role do non-governmental organizations have? We intend to address these questions with the help of our panelists, who will bring their expertise from multilateral organizations, and institutions in the United States, England, Italy, and Spain. This event, part of the Protecting Our Heritage series run by the European Union Institutes for Culture and its network in Washington, D.C., is organized through a collaboration between SPAIN arts & culture, the cultural program of the Embassy of Spain across the United States, the Embassy of Italy, the Italian Institute of Culture, and The World Bank.

Join us at the Former Residence of the Ambassadors of

Spain in our quest to safeguard cultural heritage Moderator

Prof. Mark V. Vlasic is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, a Senior Fellow at Georgetown’s Institute for Law, Science & Global Security, and its Institute of International Economic Law, and leads the international practice at Madison Law & Strategy Group. Mark served as the first head of operations of the World Bank's StAR Secretariat, which helps developing countries recover stolen assets from past dictators. Before joining the Bank, he served as a White House Fellow/special assistant to the Secretary of Defense, and was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service by Secretary Robert Gates. Prior to his government service, Mark practiced law at Gibson Dunn, and served on the Milosevic and Srebrenica genocide prosecution trial teams at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Mark has taught the Iraqi judges that tried

Saddam Hussein, served on the U.S. Delegation to the Pan Am 103 “Lockerbie” terrorist bombing trial, and is published widely. Mark studied at UCLA, Georgetown, Georgetown Law, The Hague Academy of International Law and Harvard, and was a Fulbright Scholar to Universiteit Leiden. As a U.S. Army officer, he has been attached to Capitol Hill and the Defense Attaché Office at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague, and was awarded the Army Commendation Medal. He is a Fellow with the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Mark serves on the advisory board of the Center on Sanctions & Illicit Finance.

Safeguarding Our Cultural Heritage: The Challenges of International Cooperation in a Global World

Speakers

Julian Ávila is Counselor for the Ministry of the Interior at the Embassy of Spain in Washington, D.C. and Commissioner of the Spanish National Police. He has been a member of the Spanish National Police Corps for over 30 years. His began his tenure in 1984 as Inspector, and until 1991 worked as a member of a Special Investigation Group in Pasajes-Rentería (Guipuzcoa, Basque Country). In that same year, he was appointed Chief of Service of the Task Security Center for the Presidential Security Service in Moncloa Palace, the residence of the Prime Ministers of Spain. He later served in the Illegal Immigration Central Unit as Chief of the Intelligence and Risk Analysis Service prior to his appointment to Deputy Chief of the Central Border Unit in

2010. He has filled his role with the Embassy since July 2015.

Tess Davis, a lawyer and archaeologist by training, is Executive Director of the Antiquities Coalition and an Affiliate Researcher in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Glasgow. Davis oversees the organization’s work to fight cultural racketeering worldwide and also manages the day-to-day operations of the institute’s staff in Washington. She has been a legal consultant to the Cambodian and U.S. governments, and works with both the art world and law enforcement to keep looted antiquities off the market. She writes and speaks widely on these issues, having been published in CNN, Foreign Policy, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Cambodia Daily, and various scholarly publications, in addition to being featured in documentaries in America

and Europe. In 2015, the Royal Government of Cambodia knighted Davis for her work to recover the country’s plundered treasures, awarding her the rank of Commander in the Royal Order of the Sahametrei. She is admitted to the New York State Bar.

Guido Licciardi, Senior Urban Development Specialist, joined the World Bank Group in 2009. He works on urban development, municipal service delivery, urban planning, disaster risk management, urban regeneration, cultural heritage, and sustainable tourism. He has worked with the Aga Khan Development Network, UNESCO, Carnegie Mellon University, Isfahan University, the Iranian Government, the Italian Government, ICOMOS, and the private sector. He curated The Economics of Uniqueness, a volume on the economic benefits of investing in historic downtowns, highly appreciated by critics. He graduated in Urban Planning and Architecture from Florence University (Italy, 2003), holds a PhD in Engineering from Milan Polytechnic (Italy, 2007), and was trained in Public Private Partnership for Infrastructure at the

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (USA, 2012).

Safeguarding Our Cultural Heritage: The Challenges of International Cooperation in a Global World

Bonnie Magness-Gardiner is Program Manager of the Art Theft Program at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. She manages the National Stolen Art File and provides support for the Art Crime Team, fourteen special agents investigating cultural property cases in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Magness-Gardiner received a PhD in Near Eastern Archaeology from the University of Arizona. After teaching archaeology for five years, she entered government service as program manager for the Archaeology Program at the National Endowment for the Humanities. She later became a program manager for the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress. For eight years she was the Senior Cultural Property Analyst for the Department of State, implementing the 1970 UNESCO Convention against illicit traffic in cultural

property. She served as the program manager for cultural heritage restoration projects in Iraq. Since June 2005, she has been with the FBI.

Commander Alberto Rodao Martín is Major of the Spanish Guardia Civil and Head of the Property Crime Analysis Group within the Central Criminal Intelligence Unit of the Guardia Civil. The Criminal Intelligence Unit is the central entity within the Guardia Civil in charge of the gathering and analysis of intelligence related to serious organized crime and the coordination of criminal investigations at the national and international level (bilateral and multilateral approach, planning, development, control, and update of methodology of investigations in Spanish Guardia Civil related to serious organized crime, including the illicit trafficking of cultural goods). As organized property crime expert and the head of this team, Commander Rodao represents the Guardia Civil corps in specialized conferences and forums, and in international working groups at a strategic level, such as INTERPOL, EUROPOL, etc. Previously, he served as head of the Criminal

Investigation Unit of Oviedo and chief of the Main Post of Azuqueca de Henares in Spain.

Raymond Villanueva is Deputy Assistant Director of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Office of International Operations. Mr. Villanueva has more than 21 years of law enforcement experience. He began his law enforcement career in 1994 as a police officer with the Puerto Rico Police Department, where he was subsequently promoted to criminal investigator and immediately assigned to the U.S. Customs Service Task Force, Office of the Special Agent in Charge San Juan. Since joining Immigration and Customs Enforcement at HSI, Mr. Villanueva has served in key positions within the Financial Crimes/Asset Forfeiture and Removal Group at HSI Buffalo, the Illicit Finance and Proceeds of Crime Unit in Washington, D.C., and the Trade Transparency Unit in Washington, DC. Mr. Villanueva has extensive

experience working with the international community, as he has managed the trade based money laundering programs and mission within HSI and expanded operational efforts to the Eastern Hemisphere.

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