James Abruzzo is a professor of nonprofit management at Rutgers Business School. From 1985 to 1990 James served on the graduate faculty of Columbia University in the arts management program, and for the last 10 years, he has had a teaching association with the Institut fur Kultur und Mediamanagement at the Frei Universitat in Berlin. In the spring of 2009, he taught a course that he developed on arts leadership (related to Arts Leadership) at the Universita` di Bologna. He has spoken on various topics related to arts leadership at the Adenauer Foundation in Berlin, the Goethe Institute in New York, the International Society of Performing Arts Administrators Conference in Birmingham, England, and the American Association of Museums, Dance USA, the Performing Arts Center Consortium, as well as dozens of other arts conferences in the United States and abroad. In the fall of 2008 James was a featured speaker on two different occasions at arts conferences in Berlin; one on the topic of the comparison of cultural management in New York and Berlin, the other on arts leadership.