Nil Barutel is a PhD candidate at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Javier Arregui and Dr. Nicolás Barbieri (UOC). As part of his industrial PhD scholarship, he works as a policy-maker and cultural manager at ICUB, the Department of Culture of Barcelona City Council. He is also the Director of Riborquestra.

His research focuses on the role of large cultural institutions when developing community programmes, analysing the concepts of access, equity and participation. He also looks at the impact of such programmes among professionals and participants.

He previously worked for the Jaume Bofill Foundation, the JHU-UPF Policy Centre, PEN Català (Youth at the centre of cultural production) or the Barcelona Libraries Consortium (Master Plan 2030), among others. He has also given seminars at the Master’s in Public Policy, Mundus MAPP (IBEI) and Master in Social and Public Policy (UPF-JHU).

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music (Royal Conservatoire of Brussels, Belgium) and a Master in Public and Social Policy (UPF in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University).