Sociologist and musicologist Professor Dr Susanne Keuchel is Director of the “Akademie der Kulturellen Bildung des Bundes und des Landes e. V.” and Chair of the German Federation for Arts Education and Cultural Learning, reg. Ass. (BKJ). Between 1993 and 2013, she worked at the Centre for Cultural Research in Bonn, initially as a scholar, and from 2009 on as Managing Director.
In addition to empirical cultural research, her chief areas of activity are the application of new technologies in the field of culture, Cultural Education and diversity. Her responsibilities have included surveys for the 1st and 2nd Youth Cultural Barometer, for the Cultural Barometer 50+ and for the “InterKulturBarometer” (intercultural barometer). Furthermore, she is Honorary Professor at the University of Hildesheim’s Institute for Cultural Policy and lecturer at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater” in Hamburg and is active in committees of social policy institutions.