Ruth Bereson

Professor Ruth Bereson is the Founding Director of the UB Arts Management Program and returns as an Affiliated Professor. She has an extensive international career most recently in the Arts, Education and Law Group at Griffith University, Australia where she held the positions of Dean (Academic) and subsequently Dean Engagement, Creative Arts. She has also served as Dean, Faculty for the Creative Industries at Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore), Associate Director of The Arts Administration, TC Columbia University NY, and The National University of Singapore.

Her professional experience extends to the profit and not for-profit sectors as General Manager of the Central and Northern Queensland Theatre Company, the first Australian regional touring musical theatre company serving Far North Queensland; Logistics Manager of the Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts, Townsville; and Coordinator of Continuum ‘85 an international visual arts exhibition and artist exchange between Australia and Japan.

Professor Bereson holds a PhD from the City University London. Her research focuses on arts management, cultural policy, and cultural diplomacy, investigating the relationship between governmental policies and their effects on the arts internationally and over time. She also contributes to the field through a wide range of books and chapters, edited volumes and articles on Arts Management, Cultural Policy and diplomacy, festival development and international collaborations, invited lectures, seminars, and consultancies with cultural agencies and government departments.

Research Interests:

Arts management, cultural policy and diplomacy, international arts models and systems, relationship of government policies and the arts

Companies

• Founding Director & Affiliate Professor, Arts Management Program University at Buffalo (2021)
• Education administration, International Arts Management, Cultural Policy/Diplomacy Freelance (2020)
• Dean, Engagement (Creative Arts) Griffith University (2019 — 2020)
• Dean (Academic) Arts, Education and Law Group Griffith University (2015 — 2019)
• Dean, Faculty for the Creative Industries LASALLE College of the Arts (2012 — 2015)
• Professor and Founding Director, Arts Management Program University at Buffalo (UB) (2005 — 2012)
• Associate Director, Assistant Professor, Arts Administration Program Teachers College, Columbia University (2001 — 2005)
• Fellow National University of Singapore (1999 — 2001)
• Logistics Manager 5th Festival of Pacific Arts (1987 — 1989)