Professor Dr habil Birgit Mandel is Professor for Cultural Management, Arts Education and Cultural Policy at Hildesheim University and head of MA programme Arts Mediation. She is Vice-president of the German Society for Cultural Policy (Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft), founding member and former president of the Association of Cultural Management at universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Fachverband für Kulturmanagement in Forschung und Lehre), board member for the Berlin Arts and Festival Management board (Kulturprojekte GmbH) and board member of the Commerzbank Foundation Frankfurt a. M.
She did several research projects in the field of cultural participation, connecting cultural policy, arts education and mediation, audience development, and visitor and non-visitor studies for the arts. She is author of various publications on arts/cultural management and mediation.