Board of Directors

Stichting The Cultural Heritage At Risk Database

Will Korner

Founder & Chair

Will has worked with international governments and law enforcement, museums, art market participants and stakeholders in the identification and return of stolen and looted art and antiquities. Will sits on several working groups at UNESCO and governmental level, and drafted the Responsible Art Market (RAM) Antiquities Due Diligence Toolkit in 2024.
Will is Head of Fairs at TEFAF, overseeing the world’s leading art and antiques fairs in Maastricht and New York, and has also worked as an antiquities and cultural heritage specialist.

Anna Zielinski

Project Coordinator:
Swiss Cultural Heritage Inventory Project (SCHIP)

Marion van der Marel-Konings
Treasurer

Marion is a business economist and art historian, and alongside her role as Treasurer of CHARD, she also acts as Treasurer and long term Board member of the Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici (VNK), the Dutch society of art historians.

Isabelle holds a PhD in art history and archaeology and is a former Belgian member of the École française d’Athènes. She has conducted excavations in Syria and Cyprus and taught classical archaeology as a senior lecturer at the Universities of Liège and Namur. She now specialises in provenance research. Having co-organised a symposium on the issue of ‘orphan works’ at the University of Geneva in 2021, she is a member of the expert group of the Working Group on Orphan Objects, which meets under the auspices of UNIDROIT.

James Ratcliffe

Board Member

James trained as a solicitor and archaeologist and has been General Counsel at the Art Loss Register for over 10 years. He leads the ALR’s recoveries team and at any one time is representing claimants ranging from private individuals to nation states in numerous cases of stolen and looted art and antiquities. As well as his links to claimants, the role requires close liaison with the art market and law enforcement agencies worldwide.

Team

Anna is an art specialist with extensive experience in the international art market, focusing on ancient art and Mediterranean archaeology. She previously served as Director of Galerie Sycomore Ancient Art in Geneva, where she led provenance research, acquisitions, and client relations. She holds a degree in Classical Archaeology and Art History from the University of Freiburg and has participated in archaeological excavations in Tunisia.

Anna is strongly committed to promoting transparency and ethical standards in the art trade, with a focus on responsible collecting and the protection of cultural heritage. At CHARD, she contributes her expertise to support the organization’s mission and advocacy for a responsible art market.

Isabelle Tassignon

Project Coordinator:
Swiss Cultural Heritage Inventory Project (SCHIP)

There is no renumeration for CHARD board directors.