ENTJ-A at Myers Briggs. Virgo with Virgo ascendant. Iris Lam Chen holds an MBA in Strategic Management from the State Distance University of Costa Rica. Currently serving as a cultural manager and curator at the Cultural Center of Spain in Costa Rica (CCECR) since 2018, she is also the founder and director of the cultural management organization Global Metro Art since 2015. Also, she’s Board Member of New York Odyssey Film Festival (NYOFF). As a current Master's student in Arts Administration at Baruch College, City University of New York, is awarded by the International Fellowships of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) 2024-2025 and the International Peace Scholarship of the P.E.O. Sisterhood 2024-2025.Her specialization encompasses visual arts and contemporary art, focusing on themes such as feminisms, LGTBIQ, migration, and sinology. Her work revolves around strategic management, the art market, and the establishment of interinstitutional alliances among public, private, independent, and academic entities.She is recognized for her ability to create alliances and projects both nationally and internationally. She has formed partnerships with institutions such as the Museo La Neomudéjar, Bulegoa Z/B, Bienal MAV (Spain), NYLAAT, Building Bridges Art Exchange (USA), Plataforma Caníbal (Colombia), Y.ES Contemporary, Ensayo y Error Estudio (El Salvador), La Revuelta, Espacio C (Guatemala), Quorum Laboratorio Cultural (Panama), PerfoREDMX (Mexico), among others, both internationally and within the Costa Rican cultural network.As an educator, her courses focus on art market and strategic management at the University of Costa Rica from 2018 to 2022, at the Costa Rican Association of Visual Artists in 2020-2021, and at the Sonoran Institute of Culture in Mexico. She has also been a guest lecturer at the Universidad Nacional, Universidad Latina, Universidad Veritas, and ULACIT. Additionally, she has contributed as an author in art columns in Costa Rican media, as well as in magazines such as Hypermedia Magazine, Artishock, and Mujeres Mirando Mujeres.She is a member of Mujeres Mirando Mujeres in Spain, member of the Tusanaje network in Peru, and researcher for the Latin American Academic Network of Sinological Studies at the University of Costa Rica since 2020.