Ana Žuvela Bušnja is Research Fellow at the Institute for International Relations (IMO), Zagreb, Croatia.
Ms. Žuvela Bušnja received a Honorary Bachelor of Music (piano) undergraduate degree from the University of Central England and holds an M.A. degree in Cultural Policy and Arts Management from the University College Dublin. She has a proven track record in arts administration, arts production and marketing, and cultural management, gained through the professional experience which includes the production of more than one hundered and fifty cultural events of various ranges and genres.
Her research interests include the development of cultural policies and strategies,local cultural development,
interconnections between standing cultural policies and emerging art forms and new generation of arts organisations.
Currently, she is involved in the project titled "Cultural Diversity, Intercultural Communication and Digital Culture" and is an editor and one of the authors of the upcoming Culturelink Network's publication on use of digital culture as a tool for international cultural cooperation titled "Connecting Croatia".She delivers lecture and publishes papers on the cultural policy conepts.
Mrs. Zuvela Busnja is an Assistant Director of Culturelink Network and a Co-Chair of LabforCulture Steering Committee and proud comrade and collaborator of established contemporary artist Angela O'Kelly and digital sound technology expert Donna O'Connor.