托比亚斯·比昂科内（Tobias Biancone）

Tobias Biancone is the Director-General of the International Theatre Institute ITI, as well as a poet & writer. The International Theatre Institute ITI, founded by UNESCO in 1948, is the world’s largest performing arts organization. It works to promote the exchange and cooperation among the performing arts communities all over the world, advocating the great social value of the performing arts.ITI advances UNESCO’s goals of mutual understanding and peace.
Tobias was born in Bern, Switzerland. He studied French and German literature and arts at the University of Berne. His poems have been published in German, English, Bangla, Spanish, Arabic and Russian, among others. His dramatic work has been shown in Germany (Exhibition Opera in Bremen) and in Switzerland. He has, in the past, held the positions of board member of the Swiss Centre of ITI, the President of International Playwrights Forum of ITI, and Executive Council Member of ITI. He was elected as the Director-General of ITI in 2008. Tobias Biancone has focused on the modernization of ITI. Through expanding its membership to over 100 Centres and Cooperating Members he has been able to raise awareness of the performing arts all over the world. In 2012, together with UNESCO, he called upon the establishment of the ITI/UNESCO Network for Higher Education in the Performing Arts and has held the position of President of the Network since 2014. The Network now has 54 members from all over the world and has organized events like Student Festivals, Conferences and so on, which work towards the advancement of performing arts education. Under his leadership, ITI - in conjunction with UNESCO - also initiated the project “World Performing Arts Capital”. Under his stewardship in 2015 ITI relocated its headquarters from Paris to Shanghai. Now based in China ITI has been able to strengthen its cooperation with the local performing arts institutes and organizations, creating a platform of exchange for the performing arts communities of both the east and the west.