Anupama Sekhar is an arts manager specialising in transnational cultural relations. She has worked extensively with the music sector, most recently facilitating the Music Connect workshop—an initiative to connect Asian music professionals—presented by Abu Dhabi Creative City of Music at the Culture Summit (Abu Dhabi, 2024). Between 2009 and 2021, through her work at the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), she set up mobility and collaboration grants for the music sector and commissioned sectoral studies such as Contemporary Music: Tuning into Bangladesh.
Anupama contributed to the drafting of the Fair Culture Charter—an initiative launched in 2024 by the German Commission for UNESCO to promote equitable cultural relations. She currently serves on the Research Advisory Council of ifa (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations), Germany, and is a member of the Selection Committee for UNESCO’s International Fund for Cultural Diversity. Anupama is from India and is currently based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
