Over the past decade, I have held senior administrative positions in Canada and America. I recently concluded my mandate as Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec and was previously Graduate Dean at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. My career has involved work in the cultural, as well as academic, sector as a professional curator in arts and design organisations and museums. While my PhD is in Art History and Visual Studies from the University of Manchester, my earlier degrees were in Museum Studies, Art Education, and Classical Civilization and Near Eastern Archaeology. With equal interests in contemporary art and material culture analysis, arts administration and independent artistic and curatorial practice, I have been fortunate to have a broad and wonderfully challenging career that seems to be shifting now from the academic sphere towards more humanitarian work.

I have found enormous joy, and a true sense of purpose through my work with ELIA over the years. My attentions are turning more towards Ukraine every day now as I fully engage with the UAx Platform, chairing its Steering Committee, participating as one of the liaisons with the Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation, and personally visiting many of our Platform partners at their academies in Ukraine. I have also been thrilled to contribute to Steering Committee work for both Leadership Symposia in Tallinn and Manchester, and now to be advising ELIA on a significant long-term move to think and act “intergenerationally” across all of its operations and in concert with its many members.