Mr. Tiago de Oliveira Pinto is UNESCO Chairholder on Transcultural Music Studies and Head of the Department of Musicology at the University of Music Franz Liszt, Weimar, and Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany. He is a former Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and Director of the Brazilian Cultural Institute in Germany. Currently he is in charge of international cultural research projects on intangible cultural heritage in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Africa among other countries, in close cooperation with the German Foreign Office and with other international institutions.
