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 MARY Aude

Anthropologist specialised in Migration and intercultural relations

Aude Mary is an anthropologist specialised in Migration and intercultural relations. She is a French national (and Canadian since 2012) and has developed her expertise over 14 years in Quebec, in Montreal, contributing through her successive functions to strengthening the social and professional integration of vulnerable people, especially immigrants of different migration statuses.

She worked for three years at the Bureau d'intégration des nouveaux arrivants à Montréal (BINAM) of the city of Montreal, where she was in charge of matters concerning precarious and migrants with irregular status (Déclaration Montréal, Ville sanctuaire). During this time, she responded to the municipal administration's resolution to adopt concrete measures to better serve and integrate this population by developing and implementing innovative and adapted programs and policies, in collaboration with the city's internal and external actors. These measures included the adoption by City Council of the Fearless Access to Municipal Services Policy (June 2019) and the implementation of the Identity and Residence Attestation Card for all Montrealers.

Now living in Switzerland, she works at the Cantonal Office for the Integration of Foreigners and the Prevention of Racism (BCI) of the Canton of Vaud.