Putting together a festival is no piece of cake. Meet the people at the helm.

Charles Landry,
Festival President

Charles Landy is an urban sociologist and an international authority on the role of creativity in urban and institutional change. He is the author of several books, among them “The Creative City” (2000) and “The Creative Bureaucracy” (2017, co-authored with Margie Caust).

Teresa Conrad,
Festival Director

Before joining the Creative Bureaucracy Festival, Teresa worked as Director of Partnership Development for a digital journalism start-up and as a management consultant for public sector organizations in Germany and abroad. She was a McCloy fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Friends of the Festival

Margie Caust

Margie Caust

Urban Strategist & Co-Author of ‘The Creative Bureaucracy’, Urban Collaboration

Karl-Filip Coenegrachts

Cities of People

Katja Lindroos

Co-Founder, Nordic CityMaking Week

Harm-Christian Tolden

Director General, Department of Culture, Diversity and Equality, City of Bergen

Charlot Schans

STIPO / Placemaking Europe

Kate Philip

Development Strategist & Supporter of the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention

Christian Bason

Christian Bason

CEO, Danish Design Center

Simon Güntner

Simon Güntner

Professor, Technical University Vienna

Caroline Paulick Thiel

Caroline Paulick-Thiel

Director & Co-Founder, Politics for Tomorrow

Bernd Fesel

Bernd Fesel

Director , European Creative Business Network (ECBN)

Ramon Marrades

Ramon Marrades

Director , Placemaking Europe

Hamdan Abdul Majeed

Managing Director, Think City

Jaap Schoufour

Partner, STIPO