2016 ENCATC Young Researcher's Forum

Valentina Montalto is a culture and creative industries' (CCIs) specialist with seven-year work experience. She currently works at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission at Ispra (VA), in Italy, on a new research project to monitor and assess cultural and creative cities. Previously, she worked at KEA (www.keanet.eu), a leading Brussels-based research and advisory company spe-cialised in the field of CCIs, where she seconded the KEA's founder and director Philippe Kern. Her background is in statistics for the social sciences (KU Leuven - QASS Master Degree, 2015), cultural economics and management (University of Bologna - GIOCA Master Degree, 2009), and tourism economics (University of Palermo - EGST Bachelor Degree 2006). Valentina was a student at the Collegio Superiore - Excellence School of the University of Bologna - and visiting student at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh (USA) and at the Ecole Nor-male Supérieure in Lyon (France). Valentina speaks Italian (mother tongue), Eng-lish, French and Spanish.