Keynotes

Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins (Portugal)

Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins presided over the Steering Committee of the Council of Europe that adopted the Framework Convention on the Value of Heritage for Society in Faro, Portugal.

Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins holds a master’s degree in juridical and economic science. He currently serves as the president of the Grand Council of the Centro Nacional de Cultura (CNC) and as chairman of the General Assembly of the World Monuments Fund.
His extensive career includes prominent roles such as trustee of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, president of the Tribunal de Contas (Court of Auditors), and national coordinator of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018.

Martins has been instrumental in various governmental positions, including Minister of Presidency, Minister of Finance, Minister of Education, and Secretary of State for educative administration. He has also been actively involved in legislative affairs as a member of the Portuguese Parliament and served as vice-president of the Portuguese National Commission for UNESCO.

Dr Amra Hadzimuhamedovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

She is the president and CEO of HIDR-Centre for Peace and Heritage in Sarajewo and was managing diverse projects of integrating cultural heritage into postwar recovery in Bosnia, Kosovo, Palestine, and Iraq.
Dr Amra Hadzimuhamedovic is a founder of HIDR (House of International Dialogue and Research) which includes ISSYH, a school for sustainable, inclusive, resilient and holistic recovery of heritage.  

Besides her work on international projects in different capacities, Dr Amra Hadzimuhamedovic served as a member of the Council of Europe’s Committee for Cultural Heritage (CDPAT) and as a member of the expert group drafting the Faro Convention.

Matjaž Gruden (Slovenia)

Matjaž Gruden is Director for Democracy at the Council of Europe since May 2018. His responsibilities include Council of Europe activities and programmes in the area of education, including education for democratic citizenship, youth cooperation, civil society, media freedom and journalist safety, culture and cultural heritage.

Prior to his career at the Council of Europe, he was a diplomat at the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, posted in Brussels and contributed to the establishment of formal relations and the negotiations of first cooperation agreements with the European Union.

Matjaž Gruden holds a law degree from the Law Faculty of the University of Ljubljana and a post-graduate degree in EU law from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.

He regularly publishes articles on European, human rights and democracy related issues, notably in the Slovenian media. A book of essays “Long Live all the Nations” was published in 2018.