Benedetta Ubertazzi Author

Benedetta Ubertazzi has been a UNESCO Facilitator on the global capacity building programme for the effective implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and a capacity builder with the International Academy on UNESCO Designations and Sustainable Development since 2018. She is a tenured Aggregate Professor of European Union Law at the University of Milan-Bicocca, a Jean Monnet Module coordinator (2022-2025), a lecturer for the WIPO-Turin Master of Laws in Intellectual Property and an expert in the WIPO Indigenous and Local Community Women Entrepreneurship Program. She has been a Von Humboldt Foundation Fellow (hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition) since 2010 and she is a member of the International Law Association Committees for Participation in Global Cultural Heritage Governance (appointed by the chairs) and respectively Intellectual Property and Private International Law.

In 2018, she became a co-evaluator for UNESCO at the Regional Research Centre for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in West and Central Asia (UNESCO Category 2 Centre) based in Tehran. She has served as a legal expert for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation at multinational negotiations of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage since 2010. She has been a co-facilitator of capacity-building for sustainable development plans for several communities around the world and she is a legal expert for many elements, including Traditional violin craftsmanship in Cremona (UNESCO Representative List 2012); and Falconry, a living human heritage (UNESCO Representative List 20216), among others. She is a member of the steering committees for the inscription of Tocatì, programme for the safeguarding of traditional games and sports and respectively Alpine Food Heritage: Knowledge, knowledge, skills, practices and values of alpine communities (both in the nomination phase for the UNESCO Register of Good Safeguarding Practices). Between 2018–2021, she was a member of the ‘HIPAMS Heritage Sensitive Intellectual Property and Marketing Strategies: India’ project, which was supported and facilitated by the British Library Sustainable Development Programme, Coventry University and communities in West Bengal, India.