Dr. Mafalda Dâmaso is a 2019–2021 Research Fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. She is also Lecturer in Creative Industries and Policy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London, and Visiting Lecturer at the Institut Catholique de Paris. Dâmaso was the lead researcher on a project, “The Situation of Artists and Cultural Workers and the Post-COVID Cultural Recovery in the European Union,” co-authored with Cultural Action Europe for the European Parliament and worked as an expert for the German Institute of Foreign Cultural Relations, among other roles.