Carolina CASTELLANOS ( 龙 淼 LONG Miao) is currently Head of Research Unit at WHITR-AP Shanghai. For the past 30 years, she has been serving as a consultant for UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICCROM, ICOMOS, IUCN, the World Monuments Fund, Getty Conservation Institute and other international heritage organizations as well as national government agencies, covering a variety of issues from management system design to cultural heritage policymaking. She has presided over heritage planning projects, using heritage as the driving force and promoting factor of sustainable development, and carried out field protection projects around the world.
She served as World Heritage Advisor for ICOMOS for over a decade, focusing on the protection and management of World Heritage worldwide, and carried out several reactive monitoring and technical assistance missions for this purpose. At the World Heritage Centre, she was focal point for periodic reporting, and participated in the preparation of many World Heritage policy documents, suchas Sustainable Development, Climate Change, review of statutory processes, global strategic assessments, etc. Carolina has carried out capacity-building activities related to heritage in different regions, focusing on the design of management systems and tools as well as the processes and concepts of the World Heritage Convention. At present, she is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of the Historic Preservation Program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York.