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Biography

Dr Cica commenced at Heide Museum of Modern Art in April 2017. Prior to her appointment, Dr Cica founded Kapacity.org, a global consultancy whose clients include leading cultural and educational organisations. Her professional experience spans public administration (including as an adviser to Australia’s national parliament), crisismanagement, corporate law, and the higher education and non-government sectors. She has held leading roles at think tanks and start-ups in Australia and Europe – and is an award-winning author, broadcaster and public commentator.

Dr Cica has served as an adviser to the Tasmanian Government on developing a cultural policy for Tasmania; as adviser to the Alcorso Foundation fostering cultural exchange between Europe and Australia; and as a member of the steering committee of Arts Tasmania’s Design Island program.

Her innovative THINKtent project has been presented as part of the Ten Days on the Island arts festival, at the Sydney Opera House, at the Museum of Old and New Art, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, and as part of the Danube Dialogues, the Euro MBA at Audencia Nantes School of Management, and the Human Cities initiative supported by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.

Dr Cica was founding director of the Inglis Clark Centre at the University of Tasmania, and in 2011 was an inaugural Sidney Myer Creative Fellow. She holds degrees in law and arts from the Australian National University and the University of London, and a doctorate from the University of Cambridge. She is an adjunct professor at the Australian National University, and has been a visiting scholar at the Alvar Aalto Academy in Finland and the University of Belgrade in Serbia.