Eva Kuminkova has worked with the 2003 Convention since 2011, helping States, institutions, and communities better understand and use the Convention. She has extensive experience with community-based inventorying, safeguarding strategies and policy development, as well as with the Convention’s governance and listing mechanisms, including the evaluation and drafting of nomination files and work within the Intergovernmental Committee.

An important and growing focus of her work is helping museums – open-air museums in particular – translate the Conventions’ principles into meaningful community engagement, education, and sustainable safeguarding. As an ethnologist, she focuses on cultural change, identity-building, and practical solutions for safeguarding ICH in contemporary contexts. She works at the National Institute of Folk Culture and Masaryk University.