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 Austria
 

FEDERAL MONUMENTS OFFICE

EHHF 2009 THE HERITAGE STIMULUS IN A TIME OF ECONOMIC RECESSION

Dr Christoph Bazil was nominated president of the Federal Monuments Office in June 2019. Born in Vienna in 1969, he studied law at the University of Vienna from 1987 to 1992, where he also achieved a doctorate in law in 2001 with a dissertation on the Austrian Preservation Law. In 1994, he began working with the Public Department of Monument Protection, where he was appointed deputy head in 2005, within the former Federal Ministry for Science and Research. From October 2006 until June 2008, he chaired the Intergovernmental UNESCO Committee on the Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of War. In 2008, Dr Bazil was made chairman of the Art Returning Department, before he became head of the new Department for Monument Protection and Art Restitution Matters, in 2015. Finally, he was nominated President of the Bundesdenkmalamt in June 2019.

A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY
The first European Heritage Summit was organised in London from April 26 to 28, 2006 by Dr Simon Thurley, former Chief Executive of English Heritage. The mission of the summit was to bring together for the first time those responsible for Europe's cultural heritage, to create an opportunity to exchange experiences in heritage management and to initiate joint action. The first summit brought together 23 European countries, who agreed in the summit's final declaration to continue to meet annually in the form of a European Heritage Heads Forum. Each year, future host countries are chosen by mutual agreement at the annual meeting, so that the tradition can continue.

 

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