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Jazmín Beirak
, researcher and regional representative of
Más Madrid
, will be the new general director of
Cultural Rights
at the proposal of Minister Ernest Urtasun, as reported by this department.
Urtasun
announced last January during his appearance before the
Culture Commission of Congress
the creation of this new General Directorate, which will address issues such as freedom of expression, equality or the interconnection of culture.
The appointment of
Jazmín Beirak
will soon be taken to the
Council of Ministers
for approval. Since 2015,
Beirak
has been a regional representative in the
Madrid Assembly
for
Más Madrid
, where she serves as spokesperson for Culture.
In addition, she is a researcher in cultural policies and an expert in cultural rights and has a degree in
History and Theory of Art
from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), a diploma in
Advanced Studies in History and Theory of Art
(UAM) and a career civil servant.
As a cultural manager, she has worked at the
Museum of the National Library of Spain
with curatorial, teaching and management of public activities functions. She has also participated in various research projects such as
Art and Transition
(Brumaria, 2012) or
Horizontes del Arte en España
(YGBArt, 2013), both in collaboration with the
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
, and is the author of
Cultura Ingobernable
(Ariel , 2022), on culture and cultural policies.
Culture
details that this direction will assume among its functions the development of a
Cultural Rights Plan
; the coordination of the
Sectoral Culture Conference
in which the State and the autonomous communities are represented; the promotion of measures and aid for territorial structuring and programs such as
Culture and Citizenship
or
Culture and Ruralities
; the preparation of the
Equality Plan for Culture
that the minister announced in his appearance at the Culture Commission of the Congress of Deputies; the coordination of the work of the
Statute of the Artist and the Cultural Professional
; or the
Young Cultural Bonus
, among others.
On the other hand, the department led by
Urtasun
will also create a new
Coordinating Center for Cultural Industries
, which will be integrated into the Undersecretary of Culture and will be managed in coordination with the Secretary of State for Culture. For Culture, the objective of the restructuring is to give its own entity to the promotion of cultural and creative industries.
Through this new center, all policies to support industries that depend on the different general directorates will be coordinated and promoted. Within this framework, the
Law for the creation of the Spanish Office of Copyright and Related Rights
will soon be brought to the Council of Ministers .
Carmen Paez, new Undersecretary of Culture
Likewise, Culture announced this Wednesday the appointment of
Carmen Páez Soria
as Undersecretary of Culture, who since April 2023 has served as
General Director of Cultural Industries, Intellectual Property and Cooperation
. Páez has a degree in Law and Business Administration and Management from the Pontifical University of Comillas (ICADE) and a member of the Higher Body of Civil Administrators of the State since 2012.
Páez began her professional career in the public sector at the
Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports
, where she was deputy deputy director of Intellectual Property and advisory member in the field of intellectual property rights management entities. The appointment will soon be taken to the Council of Ministers for approval.