INGA  BLESE

Inga Blese

Deputy Director
inga.blese [at] nkc.gov.lv

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Since November 2018 – National Film Centre of Latvia, Head of Production and Development
  • 2002 - 2018 – The State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, Program curator
  • 2001 - 2002 – National newspaper Diena, reporter in National news department
  • 2000 - 2001 – PriceWaterhouseCoopers Latvia, auditor
  • 1999 - 2000 – Non-Governmental Organizations’ Center, Regional program co-ordinator
  • 1997 - 1998 – PHARE European Integration programme, Project's administrative assistant

EDUCATION

  • 2005 - 2006 – De Montfort University (Leicester, Great Britain), postgraduate course in Cultural Planning
  • 1998 - 1999 – Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), Master of Arts, Politics and Political Economy
  • 1996 - 2000 – University of Latvia (Riga, Latvia), Faculty of History and Philosophy, Bachelor program of Philosophy
  • 1995 - 1997 – Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (Latvia), Bachelor of Science, Economics and Business Administration

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

  • July 1999 – Scholarship provided by Open Society Institute of Macedonia for participation in the summer school The Image of the Other
  • May 1999 - June 1999 Research grant from Soros Foundation Fellowship for MA research project (Budapest, Hungary and Riga, Latvia)
  • July 1997 – Scholarship provided by The College of New Europe, Course: Basic Social, Cultural and Economic Problems of New Europe, Krakow, Poland

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

  • Latvian: mother tongue;
  • English and Russian: fluent;
  • French, German: basic conversational