Workshop on First Aid to Cultural Heritage in time of Crisis 2019|20

Formador: Aparna Tandon

Coordinator, International Programme on Disaster Risk Management & Project Specialist at ICCROM. As the Project Specialist at ICCROM, Ms. Tandon is leading its international capacity development programme on disaster risk management and its lagship training on first Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis. Additionally, she is coordinating and developing the activities of the SOIMA Sound and Image Collections Conservation program aimed at safeguarding endangered audiovisual heritage. Aparna has led post disaster assessments and training initiatives for recovery of Cultural Heritage in Haiti (2010), Philippines (2013) and Nepal (2015). Through ICCROM ATHAR regional center at Sharjah, she has led workshops for protecting cultural heritage in conflict-afflicted countries that include Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Sudan and South Sudan.