Board of Directors

Stichting The Cultural Heritage At Risk Database

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  • 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.

  • Marion is a business economist and art historian. Alongside her role as Treasurer of CHARD, she supports various cultural organizations, focusing on strategy and policy, business operations, and finance. She is Treasurer of the Supervisory Board at Museum Huis Doorn and Chair of the Supervisory Board at Stichting Wonderkamer. Previously, she was a long term Board member and Treasurer at the Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici (VNK), the Dutch Association of Art Historians.

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  • Apsara Iyer is a lawyer and art crime investigator who has led global efforts to recover stolen cultural heritage. Former Deputy of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit (ATU), she helped spearhead international criminal investigations into looted art and artifacts, working with law enforcement agencies worldwide to repatriate more than 2,400 stolen works to 33 countries.
    Apsara has clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Southern District of New York. In 2023, she was elected the 137th President of the Harvard Law Review.

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  • 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.

  • Alina brings experience from the art market and cultural heritage sector. She previously served as Marketing Manager at TEFAF, where she managed social media and newsletter for one of the world’s leading art and antiques fairs, and has also worked for galleries in the art trade.

    Alina holds a bachelor’s in Art History and a master’s in Art History, with further studies on decolonising the museum, exploring colonial legacies and repatriation. 

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Andrew Dearman, volunteer team member at the CHARD Foundation

  • Andrew is a History of Art student at the Courtauld Institute in London. He previously worked in the Antiquities department at Christie’s, coordinating biannual auctions and carrying out provenance research. Alongside his studies, Andrew has undertaken internships with the Center for Art Law and the Antiquities Coalition, further developing his interest in cultural heritage protection. He has also participated in archaeological excavations in Peru.

    Alina holds a bachelor’s in Art History and a master’s in Art History, with further studies on decolonising the museum, exploring colonial legacies and repatriation. 

Team

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

Alina Arcari, marketing at the CHARD Foundation

There is no remuneration for CHARD board directors.