Steve Austen

Steve AUSTEN  Dr. h.c. is currently a member of the board of managers of European Legal Body “A Soul for Europe”. He has been active in the European public domain since 1966, concentrating on the arts, heritage, cultural policy, international cooperation, civil society issues and entrepreneurship. He was co-author of Amsterdam Cultural Capital of Europe 1987. Created the informal working body Gulliver, in close cooperation with Günter Grass as well as the Felix Meritis Foundation, European Center for Arts, Culture & Science. Commissioned by the Universities of Amsterdam and Maastricht, he initiated the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (1989) that most recently launched an MBA on Culture, Heritage & Citizenship (2015).