Rocío Nogales

Rocío is the Managing Director of the EMES International Research Network since 2004. She earned her PhD at the University of Barcelona in 2017 on the topic of social innovation in cultural and artistic social enterprises. In particular, she studied the scaling-up process of the SMart cooperative model across Europe. Her thesis was distinguished with the ENCATC 2020 Research Award on Cultural Policy and Management and will be published by Routledge by the end of 2022. She has done consultancy and advisory work for international organizations like the OECD, the European Commission and the UNDP on various topics related to social enterprises and social entrepreneurship. She is part of the core group of the Spanish Network of Community Culture Entities and Agents (REACC) where she co-led the first overview study of community culture in Spain. She is also a member of the Council of the SMartib cooperative. From 2018-2020, she was part of the coordination team of the Ecopoetry Festival in the Jerte Valley in Northern Extremadura. Rocío is a member of Culture Action Europe Green Team.