Albornoz, Luis

I am applying for a position on the International Council with the aim of providing our association with an Ibero-American perspective on the analysis of the problems affecting the functioning of the cultural industries. In recent years, I have been following the development of the UNESCO Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and I am currently working on the drafting of the next Global Report Re/Shaping Cultural Policies organized by the Secretariat of the Convention. It is my intention to strengthen the relationship that IAMCR maintains with UNESCO.

Luis Albornoz is director of the research group Audiovisual Diversity at Carlos III University of Madrid. As a full-time professor in the Communications Department of the UC3M, he teaches the courses Media Landscape and Audiovisual Geopolitics. Currently at UC3M he directs the Master's Degree in Research applied to the Media and the Master's Degree in Music Industry and Sound Studies. Founding member and former president (2007-2013) of the international scientific association Unión Latina de Economía Política de la Información, la Comunicación y la Cultura (ULEPICC).

Albornoz holds a degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires and a PhD from the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising I at the Complutense University of Madrid. Among his latest published works are Power, Media and Culture. A Critical View from the Political Economy of Communication (Palgrave/IAMCR, 2015), Diversidad e industria audiovisual: el desafío cultural del siglo XXI (Mexico: FCE, 2017), and Audiovisual Industries and Diversity: Economics and Policies in the Digital Era (London/New York: Routledge, 2019).

Nominated by Rodrigo Gomez, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico