Mauricio Delfin

Mauricio Delfin received a Joint Honors in Anthropology and International Development Studies from McGill University and an MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University. He founded and directed Realidad Visual(2001-2010), the Peruvian National Summit of Culture (2011-2014) and Culturaperu.org (2009-2015), a Cultural Information System designed and maintained by civil society. Delfin has worked as research associate for Tándem, a cultural policy think-tank, and R&D strategist for La Factura, a civic softwarecompany. He was a Vanier Scholar (2014-2017) and an OAS Open Government Fellow (2015). He currently serves as technical secretary of the Peruvian Alliance of Cultural Organizations (APOC) and as founder and director of Asociación Civil Solar, a non-profit organization that promotes the open government of culture in Peru. He is a doctoral candidate in Communication Studies at McGill University.