ARTURO REY DA SILVA

An expert on the protection of cultural heritage and maritime archaeologist, was a member of the team at the UNESCO Secretariat for the Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage between 2011 and 2018, where he provided assistance to member states for the development of infrastructures for the protection and archaeological research of the underwater cultural heritage. Previously he collaborated with the Spanish Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática ARQVA in various preventive archaeology interventions and in research projects in Egypt and East Africa. Ph.D. at the University of Paris I Panthéon – Sorbonne, he was elected a member of the ICOMOS Scientific Committee for Underwater Cultural Heritage in 2019, alternating the work of an external consultant with UNESCO, with research and academic teaching as a visiting professor in several universities of the UNESCO UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology. He recently joined the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh as Honor Frost Scholar in Marine Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development where he analyses the results of Rising from the Depths projects, measuring the contribution of marine cultural heritage to sustainable development in East Africa, as well as their potential to maximize the impact of marine archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and other emerging regions.