Alfons Karabuda

Alfons Karabuda
Alfons Karabuda at the ECSA General Assembly in Reykjavik 2012
Born	December 2, 1967 , Sweden
Nationality	Swedish, Turkish
Occupation	President ECSA and SKAP, expert to the UN Human Rights Council, member of the executive board IMC, composer
Relatives	Denize Karabuda

Alfons Karabuda, born 2 December 1967 in , Sweden, is a Swedish composer and EU cultural politics personality.

Karabuda is the acting CEO of STIM (the Swedish Performing Rights Society), president of ECSA (European Composer and Songwriter Alliance), executive chairman of SKAP – Sveriges kompositörer och textförfattare (the Swedish Association of Composers, Songwriters & Lyricists) and expert in the field of artistic rights to the UN Human Rights Council. He is a member of the executive board at IMC (International Music Council), Statens Musikverks konstnärliga råd (The Artistic Board of Music Development and Heritage Sweden), Musiksverige (Musicsweden), STIM (The Swedish Performing Rights Society) and Svensk Musik (Swedish Music). Karabuda is also chairman of the Polar Music Prize Award.

As expert to the UN Human Rights Council, Karabuda was part of producing the first ever UNHRC report on artistic rights in 2013. The report was followed by new reports during 2014.

As the president of ECSA, Karabuda has been a driving force in the formation of a European–American collaboration between the music creator organisations ECSA and SGA (Songwriters Guild of America). Together, the organisations have focused on the global issues of artistic rights, free speech and authors' rights (in America, copyright), in joint actions such as the Fair Trade Music Initiative.

As a member of the executive board of STIM, and during 2014 as acting CEO, Karabuda has focused on developing international strategy, improving distribution systems and adjusting the organization to the new EU directive on collective rights management.