Eugene JO

Eugene Jo has been coordinating the World Heritage Leadership programme between ICCROM and IUCN since 2017, based in Rome, Italy. WHL is a capacity building programme focusing on areas of effective management, building resilience and conducting impact assessments. She has coordinated and co-authored titles in the World Heritage Resource Manuals such as the Guidance and Toolkit on Impact Assessments in a World Heritage Context (2022), Enhancing our Heritage Toolkit 2.0 - Assessing Management Effectiveness of World Heritage Properties and Other Heritage Places (2023), and Managing World Heritage (Forthcoming). She also designs and delivers diverse capacity-building activities for World Heritage. 

She holds a BA in Korean History, an MA in Cultural Heritage Studies, and is completing her PhD in World Heritage Studies. She was the national focal point for World Heritage in Korea for nine years, and an independent researcher prior to her work at ICCROM.