Toni Attard

After more than a decade leading numerous cultural projects, establishing 10 public arts funding programmes and creating strategies for the cultural and creative sectors within the public sector in Malta, Toni embarked on setting up his own creative enterprise. He was the first Director of Strategy at Arts Council Malta and was responsible for the leadership of the strategy team that created and developed the Council’s Create 2020 strategy. He served as creative economy advisor within the Ministry of Finance, the Economy and Investment to develop a national strategy for the cultural and creative industries in Malta.

He is one of the authors of Malta’s cultural policy, a visiting lecturer in arts management at the University of Malta and the Central Mediterranean Business School, served on numerous EU policy groups and is a regular speaker at international conferences on arts and culture.

He graduated from the University of Malta with an Honours degree in Communications and Theatre Studies. As a Chevening scholar he completed his postgraduate degree in cultural management and policy at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.  Toni is a founding member of Opening Doors, an NGO for the artistic development of adults with learning disabilities. He is also an actor and theatre director and served as Festival Director of ZiguZajg international festival for children and young people for 4 editions until 2015 and artistic director of EuroPride 2023. Toni is a co-founder and board member of the Cultural Policy Designers Network – a Europe-wide network for independent cultural experts. He chaired the International Programming Advisory Committee of the 8th World Summit of Arts & Culture. In 2023, Toni was appointed by the European Commission as a member of the monitoring and evaluation of the European Capitals of Culture.