Malavika Anderson

Malavika Anderson is on secondment as Cultural Programmer at the University of Cambridge Museums consortium having been awarded funding as part of the Arts Council’s Change Makers programme for BME leadership in cultural institutions. She is heading the development and delivery India Unboxed on behalf of the UCM.

In her substantive role however, Malavika is Public Engagement and Festival Manger at the University of Cambridge. She is responsible for curating, a series of public engagement projects in the arts, humanities and social sciences, including the annual Cambridge Festival of Ideas. She liaises with researchers and academics across the School of Arts and Humanities and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences in planning their Public Engagement projects and involvement in the Festival of Ideas. She is also responsible for managing and delivering the Rising Stars training programme in Public Engagement and Cambridge Shorts project for early career researchers.

Previously, as Programme Co-coordinator for South Asia in the Department of Culture at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan in New Delhi, introducing, co-ordinating and delivering cultural projects. Prior to that she was a member of the Curatorial Department of Film at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.