Intercultural cities experts

A range of international experts participate to support the Intercultural cities programme.

Their tasks include, inter alia:

Drafting analytical reports on cities’ results on the Intercultural cities’ index;
Participating in monitoring visits and preparing reports such as the Intercultural profiles of member cities;
Providing advice to cities in the context of the preparation of their intercultural strategies;
Preparing thematic events and drafting reports and policy briefs based on the results;
Providing advice and training in specific areas (eg myth-busting, intercultural competence, political communication);
Providing policy advice in specific areas (education, culture, housing, economic development, social services, urban planning, impact evaluation etc.);
Managing national intercultural cities networks;
Designing and managing specific projects (eg. awareness campaigns).

ICC experts

Back KHOVANOVA-RUBICONDO Kseniya

Professional in the fields of public affairs and urban policy development

Dr. Kseniya Khovanova-Rubicondo is a professional in the fields of public affairs and urban policy development (PhD, Chicago, MPA, California USA). The most part of her career she dedicated to urban economnic policy development, monitoring and diversity management. She occupied leading managerial and analytical positions at the top international organizations in the USA, Canada, Western and Eastern Europe.

Since 2008, she has served as an expert and the evaluator of the Intercultural Cities Programme of the Council of Europe (CoE), contributed to the ICC Index development, and worked on a number of EC-supported initiatives incl. the Attitudes to Migrants, Communication and Local Leadership (AMICALL, Oxford University, UK), the European Migrant Integration Academy (EU-MIA, Torino, Italy), The Study on the Impact of the European Cultural Routes on SMEs Development and Innovation, and others. Kseniya also served as a principal evaluator and the theory of change developer of the Communication 4 Integration (C4i) project, joinly supported by the CoE and the EC.

Besides, Dr. Khovanova-Rubicondo provided methodological guidance and support to many other CoE-EC joint projects in the fields of sustainable (transnational) network management, performance assessment and monitoring. Among them are Public Policy Review, Compendium (2009), CultureWatchEurope (2010), Cultural Routes (2010-2013), - and to the EC funded programs including Urban Structural Funds (2008), ERINA, ERINA+ (2011-2013), Maxiculture (2012-2013), iMentors (2013-2014), and ei4Africa (2015). Kseniya has designed a number of evaluation frameworks, systems of indicators, indices and toolkits that are currently used by the local governments and city administrations in the US and Europe. Some examples include the Cities’ Fiscal Health Index, Index of Innovation (2008), Intercultural Cities Index (2009), Toolkit for the CoE Cultural Routes: Compliance Indicators (2013), the C4i Theory of Change Map (2015).

A distinguished record of Kseniya’s publications includes book chapters, reviews, evaluations, individual studies and manuscripts. Dr. Khovanova-Rubicondo’s studies were published by top international organizations such as the EC (Brussels, BE), the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, FR), the Government Financial Officers Association (Chicago, IL USA) as well as international peer-reviewed journals incl. Public Administration Review, Government Finance Review and the Environment and Behavior (USA), Croatian Economic Survey (Croatia), Editions Rodopi (the Netherlands), the Global Magazine (SAGA Foundation, Poland), Cultural Almanach (Kyiv National University, Ukraine).