After a long career with UNESCO as Programme Specialist in the Education Sector, Masako lent her extensive international experience and network to the creation of a high-class chamber music concert programme at La Loingtaine, to allow young musicians opportunities for extended rehearsal and personal professional development.
Since 2005, the programme has organized more than 200 concerts and established regular musical training activities for young musicians from various countries. The programme has built a diverse, local audience of music lovers counting engineers, teachers, academics, scientists, philosophers, painters, writers, architects, high-school students, and many others.
Over the years, the scope of the activities at La Loingtaine has expanded. Lately, Masako has been organizing small  conferences aimed at disseminating the knowledge of art, music, and science, stimulating debate and highlighting the potential for cross-pollination these different kinds of knowledge.

In 2018, she created the La Loingtaine Publishing House in further support of this goal.

Pernille has worked in over 30 countries, working as a freelance consultant to Governments and international agencies, notably UNESCO. During her long career she has been focusing on capacity-building related to policy and project design in the culture and education sectors. Pernille’s work often was involved with the formulation of up-stream projects, for example the identification of innovative and cross-sectoral project design.
Pernille has extensive experience as researcher and writer, and has overseen the production of several hundred books published by UNESCO. She worked for many years with the development of professional publishing industries and other cultural industries in emerging economies.
She has been affiliated as senior research fellow to Universities in both Copenhagen and Hong Kong, and has edited and published numerous peer-reviewed academic articles.
Today she works as editor-in-chief at La Loingtaine Publishing.

OUR  EDITORIAL ADVISERS

TØNNES BEKKER NIELSEN

Founding Director of Aarhus University Press  from 1985 to 2000, Tønnes Bekker Nielsen is a specialist of scholarly publishing and a well-known author in his own right with a number of titles on ancient and classical history, notably ancient geography; Roman fishing; ancient Anatolia; ancient Sparta; Greek and Roman epigraphy. In 2000, he joined the University of Southern Denmark. He is currently researching a book in English about the ancient city of Neoclaudiopolis, now Vezirkörpü in northern Turkey.

Editor of Classica et Medievalia, Revue danoise de philologie et d’histoire, 2004-2011.

Review editor of Orbis Terrarum, International Journal for the Historical Geography of the Ancient World, 2012-2018.

President, International Association of Scholarly Publishers 1991-1997

Director of the research project “Where East meets West” 2012-2015 (www.sdu.dk/halys)
Board of directors, Ernst-Kirsten-Gesellschaft für die historische Geographie der alten Welt, 2012-
Board of directors, Wormianum Foundation, 2017-

RICHARD ENGELHARDT

 Educated in anthropology and history at Yale (BA) and Harvard (AM, PhD) universities, Richard A. Engelhardt, Jr. has been a leader in cultural heritage research and conservation efforts throughout Asia for the past four decades, teaching at universities throughout the region and serving in senior leadership positions with UNESCO and other UN agencies.

 In 1991, he established the UNESCO Office in post-conflict Cambodia and initiated the International Safeguarding Campaign for Angkor.  From 1994-2008, he served as UNESCO Regional Advisor for Culture in Asia and the Pacific, and subsequently from 2008-2020 as UNESCO Charge de Mission and Senior Advisor for Culture and World Heritage Mentor.  During his years of service with UNESCO, Engelhardt initiated the flagship UNESCO Heritage Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation in Asia; established the UNESCO-ICCROM Asian Academy for Heritage Management; and, spearheaded the effort to extend impact assessment to cultural heritage sites throughout Asia and the world.

 Engelhardt is the author of numerous scholarly publications in the field of cultural heritage and the recipient of numerous awards for public service from the governments of Cambodia, Viet Nam, the Philippines, and Myanmar. In recognition of his contribution to the field of heritage conservation, in 2004 Engelhardt was honoured by the Global Heritage Fund with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2022, he was appointed to the position of Advisor to the SEAMEO-SPAFA Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts.

RUPERT MACLEAN

An accomplished educator and researcher, Rupert Maclean is actively involved with research and writing about various aspects of educational innovation for development (EID) with particular reference to skills development for employability (TVET) in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and Africa. As series editor for Springer publications he has written or edited many books publications, including:

• International Handbook of Education for the Changing World of Work
• Handbook of Technical and Vocational Education and Training Research
• Book series on Education in the Asia-Pacific Region, Technical and Vocational Education and Training, and Education for Sustainability.

 He spent a significant part of his educational career at UNESCO offices including senior international UNESCO and university posts as Chief of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Educational Innovation for Development (ACEID), UNESCO Bangkok (1993-2000); Foundation Director of the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (2001-2009) in Bonn, Germany; and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oxford (2007-2015). He has also held senior UNESCO postings in Myanmar and Paris; and university chairs in Hong Kong, Australia, Qatar and Malaysia.

BARBARA ADLER

DON LONG

 Publisher at Lift Education E Tu Limited, Wellington

Don Long has devoted his entire career to the production of quality publications and other resources in Pacific languages and English. Working first for Learning Media Limited and later for Lift Education producing resources for the New Zealand Ministry of Education and for other Ministries in the region as well as for organisations involved in Pacific educational publishing, he has significantly facilitated the increased awareness and quality of indigenous publishing that has come about over the last decades. 

DESMOND HUI

Professor at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

 Experienced Managing Director, Architect, Historian and Art Curator with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in Art and Design, Lecturing, International Relations, English, Management, and Policy Analysis. Strong business development professional with a Doctor of Philosophy – PhD focused in History of Art and Architecture from University of Cambridge.

ROBERTO VALENCIA CEVALLOS