Eliane Damasceno
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Domain of Expertise: Cultural and creative industries, Cultural entrepreneurship
Nationality: Brazil
Ms Damasceno is a crafts, design and market access specialist, with experience in community mobilization, product development and entrepreneurship, in particular in the crafts sector. Ms Damasceno also has extensive experience with creating and implementing local development strategies to support the cultural industries and cultural entrepreneurs.
She has worked for several projects in Brazil, in leading institutions such as SEBRAE (Brazilian Micro and Small Business support Service), the Ministry of Agriculture Development, Amazonastur (Amazon Tourism Agency) and in Mozambique with the Aga Khan Foundation.