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 WAGNER Andrea

Head of International Regional Economic Analysis at BAK Economics, Switzerland

BAK Economics AG (BAK) is an independent Swiss economic research institute, which produces comprehensive economic studies and makes the findings of these studies useful for politics, business and society.

Macroeconomic, regional and sector-specific questions on an empirical and quantitative basis are the focus of BAK's analyses. BAK has been supporting cities and regions in their monitoring and strategic development with BAK Regional Economics Analysis (REA) for more than 20 years.

Andrea Wagner is responsible for international studies and projects, mainly regional economic analysis. She has been the project lead of the OPENCities-Monitor since 2010 and head of international regions division since 2017. BAK has been commissioned by the Council of Europe within the ICC project since 2009. BAK supported the Council of Europe in developing, implementing and maintaining the ICC benchmarking tool (Intercultural Cities Index).

Andrea Wagner studied economics at the Universities of Munich and Cambridge (UK). She graduated and received her doctorate from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich (Dr. oec.-publ.).