Ivor Davies is an independent adviser and researcher in international cultural policy, with extensive expertise in European, national and local contexts. His long-term aims are to foster new inter-disciplinary connections between the arts sector, civil society and policy-makers, and research more coherent approaches to shared cultural decision-making. 

For several years he has been working independently with Relais Culture Europe (France), as a core member of I-team, a European peer-learning programme, and Transmaking, a major trans-national cultural research partnership. He was commissioned by Culture Action Europe to research and write a new reader on cultural networking, work as Programme Associate for Agenda 21 for Culture, Pilot Cities. Working with UCLG, he was a consultant adviser to several European city administrations, delivering and supporting the rollout of the Pilot Cities programme. And as a researcher, he was commissioned by Culture Action Europe to undertake a book review, tracking the evolution of the European Capitals of Culture Programme.