Valentina Agafonova

Director, Central City Youth Library M. A. Svetlova.

Russia

In 2010 she became an expert trainer in field of social project development under the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation). She is a winner of the Moscow Competition "Manager of the Year 2018" in the nomination "Cultural and Leisure Activities".

Director of the State Budgetary Institution of Culture of Moscow "M.A. Svetlov Central City Library for Youth" since 2017. In 2007 she graduated from the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute with a degree in Philology. In 2018–2019 she held the position of Director of the State Budgetary Institution of Culture of Moscow 'Library-Reading Room named after A.S. Pushkin' on a part-time basis. Previously she had occupied leading positions in FSBE Rospatriottsentr (Russian Centre for the Civic and Patriotic Education of Children and Youth), SPEC 'Moscow Direction for Development of Cultural Centres' and SAIC of Moscow 'MOSGORTUR' (Moscow Agency for Recreation and Tourism). She is a co-producer and co-organizer of festivals and public projects (public movement "V DELE", Hipster Cup Moskva 2013, pro-MOTHERLAND, etc.)