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Keywords: Intangible cultural heritage, Women, Development, Sustaina-
bility, UNESCO 2003 Convention.

Short biography:
Janet Blake received her PhD in International Law from Dundee Univer-
sity and then spent two years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Glasgow
University Law School, both in Scotland, before she moved to Iran. She is
now Associate Professor of Law at the University of Shahid Beheshti (Tehran)
where she teaches International, Environmental and Human Rights Law and
is the Head of the Human Rights Department. Dr Blake has acted as an Inter-
national Consultant to UNESCO since 1999, mostly in the field of intangible
cultural heritage and in drafting and implementing the 2003 Intangible Cultur-
al Heritage Convention. Since 2015, she has also been a Global Facilitator for
UNESCO’s Capacity-building under the 2003 Convention and has provided
advice at governmental level on developing national law and policy for safe-
guarding ICH. She has published several books and articles (in English and
Persian) and her research monograph on International Cultural Heritage Law
was published by Oxford University Press in June 2015. Her Commentary on
UNESCO’s 2003 Convention (co-edited with Dr Lucas Lixinski) was pub-
lished by Oxford University Press in February 2020.