Zainab Bahrani
Professor, Department of Art History and Criticism, State University of New York
Stony Brook, New York

Zainab Bahrani, a native of Iraq, teaches ancient art and contemporary critical theory in the Department of Art History and Criticism at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Her doctoral dissertation analyzed the archaeological remains of an administrative building in southern Iraq dating to the mid-third millenium B.C. Her more recent publications focus on issues of postcoloniality, cultural theory, and the relationship of politics and archaeology. Her work has appeared in journals such as Art History and Oxford Art Journal as well as in the Arabic journal Al Hayat. Dr. Bahrani is currently completing a book, Writing Presence, which investigates the relationship of colonialism, art history, and the representation of cultures. Dr. Zainab previously worked in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Malcolm Bell
Professor, Department of Art, University of Virginia
Andrew Mellon Professor, The Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts
Charlottesville, Virginia

Malcolm Bell has taught classical archaeology at the University of Virginia since 1971. He has directed the excavations at the Sicilian Greek city of Morgantina since 1980, with Carla Antonaccio of Wesleyan as co-director since 1989. His scholarly interests lie in Greek art and architecture, of the western Greeks in particular. He has recently written on western Greek sculpture and is now preparing publication of the agora and public buildings of Morgantina. Dr. Bell has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and served as Professor-in-charge of the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome in 1991-92 and 1993-96. For the next two years he will hold the position of Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art.

Mario Bandioli-Osio
Minister Plenipotentiary and President
Interministerial Commission for Works of Art
Rome, Italy

Mario Bondioli-Osio is Minister Plenipotentiary and President of the Interministerial Commission for Works of Art, Rome, Italy. He received his law degree from the University of Milan in 1960, and joined the Italian diplomatic Service in 1962, serving in the general consulate in Basel, the embassy in Bonn, the United Nations Department of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as in Tripoli, Teheran, and the Italian Mission to the United Nations in New York. From 1988-1990, he served as Ambassador to the Popular Democratic Republic of Yemen, Aden, and from 1992-1995 as the first Italian Ambassador to the state of Qatar in Doha. In 1995, he was appointed President of the newly created Interministerial Commission for Works of Art, with the task of developing activities of a diplomatic-cultural character aimed at the recovery of works of art unlawfully taken out of Italy.

Steve Bourget
Lecturer, Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
University of East Anglia
Norwich, England

An expert on the Moche culture of Peru, Steve Bourget teaches at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas at the University of East Anglia. Between 1995 and 1997, a project carried out at Huaca de la Luna, the capital of the Moche state (0-800 A.D.) on the Peruvian North Coast, revealed a massive sacrificial site and a series of high-status burials. These finds allow the sacrificial practices and the role of the priesthood in these performances to be studied together for the first time. This year he began a four-year study of Huancaco, one of the most important Moche sites in the Viru Valley, that will illuminate its economic, political, and religious relations with the neighboring Moche Valley. Dr. Bourget assumed a leading role in the 1994 conference “Objects of Desire or Desire for Objects: Collectors and Collecting, Dealers and Dealing, Looters and Looting of Pre-Columbian Art.”

Sarah Brett-Smith
Professor of Art History, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Sarah Brett-Smith is Associate Professor of the History of Art at Rutgers University. She has spent more than five years working among the Bamana people of Mali, West Africa and in 1994 published her study of the working processes of Bamana sculptors, The Making of Bamana Sculpture: Creativity and Gender (Cambridge University Press). This book won the Arnold Rubin Prize awarded by the Arts Council of the African Studies Association for the best book on African art published between 1992 and 1995, and was a runner up for the 1995 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. Dr. Brett-Smith has also worked since 1976 on the symbolism of the geometric patterns that Bamana women paint onto mud-dyed cloth. She is currently working on a book, Bamana Mud Cloths: Creativity and Abstraction among Bamana Women, which will be a companion volume to her work on sculpture.

Veletta Canouts
National Center for Cultural Resources
Stewardship and Partnership Programs, National Parks Service
Washington, D.C.

An archaeologist with extensive field experience in North America, Veletta Canouts has been active in cultural resources management for over twenty-five years. In her present position, Dr. Canouts is involved in programmatic and regulatory activities related to implementation and enforcement of federal laws protecting antiquities, namely the Archaeological Resources Protection Act and the Abandoned Shipwreck Act, as well as Native American human remains and certain cultural items covered by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The Archeology and Ethnography program, which has leadership and operational responsibilities for the National Parks and the Federal Archeology program government-wide, carries out the Secretary of Interior's responsibilities for these acts and provides technical assistance and preservation training, nationally and internationally. Dr. Canouts is a published researcher and is now a research collaborator at the Smithsonian's Center for Materials Research and Education, where she conducts research on museum collections from the American Southwest.

Joseph Coleman Carter
Director, Institute of Classical Archaeology
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

Professor Joseph Carter has been teaching the Classics Department at the University of Texas at Austin since 1971 and is also Director of the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas. For the last quarter-century, Professor Carter and his students have been doing pioneering work on ancient Greek and Roman farming communities, a relatively little-known aspect of ancient life. He has been directing interdisciplinary archaeological investigations of the Chorai, or agricultural areas, of the Greek colonies of Metaponto (since 1974) and Croton in southern Italy (since 1983), and of Chersonesos in Crimea, Ukraine (since 1992). The University of Texas team was the first U.S. team to be invited to excavate a major site in the former Soviet Union. Together with the research done in southern Italy, the project in the Crimea has provided an unique perspective on Greek colonies and farmers in the West and East.

Clemency Coggins
Professor of Archaeology and Art History, Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

Clemency Coggins specializes in Mayan art history and archaeology and has dedicated much of her career to cultural property issues. Her seminal article, "Illicit Traffic of Pre-Columbian Antiquities" (Art Journal, 1969), greatly raised awareness within the archaeological community of the antiquities market and its impact on long-term archaeological goals. Dr. Coggins worked closely with numerous congressional committees to ensure the ultimate passage of the U.S. Implementing Legislation for the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Property and was among the first appointed by the President to the United States Cultural Property Advisory Committee. She has chaired the Committee on Preservation of Archeaological Resources and the Professional Responsibilities Committee of the Archaeological Institute of America for many years. Her recent contributions include serving as keynote speaker at the Fifth International Symposium on the Legal Trade in Works of Art in Vienna. Dr. Coggins has published extensively on such important Maya sites as Tikal, Dzibilchaltun, and Chichen Itza.

Torkom Demirjian
Art Dealer, Ariadne Galleries
New York, New York

Torkom Demirjian is President of Ariadne Galleries, a leading Madison Avenue dealer in Greek and Roman, Near Eastern, and Asian art with an international clientele of museums and collectors. A self-made antiquarian, Torkom Demirjian has been a dealer in ancient coins since 1972 and in ancient art since 1978. He is known in the industry for his grounding in the marketplace, his sense of history, and his acute aesthetic judgment. Both as a dealer and as a collector, Mr. Demirjian has sought to increase interest in and knowledge of ancient culture among collectors as well as the general public.

Jerrilyn Dodds
School of Architecture
City University of New York
New York, New York

Jerrilyn Dodds's work centers primarily on issues of artistic interchange and identity and the problems surrounding art and minorities in pluralistic societies. She is the author of Architecture and Ideology of Early Medieval Spain (London and University Park, 1991), Al Andalus: The Arts of Islamic Spain (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992) and numerous other publications, as well as exhibitions on the subject of cultural interchange as seen through art and architecture. She has most recently written on the significance of the destruction of cultural heritage in Bosnia ("Bridge over the Neretva: Cultural Genocide in Bosnia," and "Hearts and Stones: The Rebuilding of the Bridge at Mostar"). A prizewinning filmmaker as well as author, Professor Dodds has been writing and filming works to be shown in conjunction with museum exhibitions (Journey to St. James; An Imaginary East) and for public television (Stari Most: The Bridge at Mostar).

Richard Ellis
Detective Sergeant, Organized Crime Group, Art & Antiquities Unit
New Scotland Yard
London, England

Richard Ellis became involved in investigating international art theft at Hempstead in 1986 and transferred to the International and Organized Crime Branch at New Scotland Yard in 1988. Since founding the Art Squad in 1989, he has been investigating important cases of art, antiques, and antiquities theft internationally and has spoken at a number of conferences concerning art theft. His notable successes include the recovery of Munch's The Scream, stolen in Norway in 1994; works by Vermeer and others stolen in Ireland in 1986; and a Pieter Brueghel stolen in London. Mr. Ellis also led the investigation known as Operation Bulrush, which led to the prosecution of a number of smugglers of antiquities from Egypt and China. He is on the executive committee of the Council for the Prevention of Art Theft and has been working with the principal U.K. trade associations on the development of a Code of Due Diligence, to be launched later this year.

Muhammed Filipovic'
Bosnian Academy of Arts and Sciences
Sarajevo, Bosnia

Muhammed Filipovic' is the Vice President of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of the Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina and has been a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo since 1965. He has published twelve books and more than one thousand articles on philosophy, science, politics, and the culture of Bosnia-Hercegovina. Dr. Filipovic' also heads several political organizations and is a member of the Parliament of his native Bosnia-Hercegovina. He has served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plentipotentiary of the Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina to the Swiss Confederation since 1993 and to the United Kindgom since 1995.

Patty Gerstenblith
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Cultural Property
Professor, DePaul University College of Law
Chicago, Illinois

Patty Gerstenblith has been Professor of Law at the DePaul University College of Law since 1984. Professor Gerstenblith publishes and teaches in the areas of law and the arts and cultural heritage and has spoken at conferences at Siracusa (Sicily), Oxford University, the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, and throughout the United States. Her recent article, "Identity and Cultural Property: The Status of Cultural Property in the United States," was published in the Boston University Law Review. She is currently President of the Board of Trustees of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and also serves as a trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America and American Schools of Oriental Research. Since 1995, she has been editor of the International Journal of Cultural Property.

McGuire Gibson
Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Chicago
Oriental Institute
Chicago, Illinois

McGuire Gibson is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in the Oriental Institute and the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Chicago. Since 1972, he has taught and done research at the University of Chicago, with his most extensive field work in Iraq and Yemen. He is the author and/or editor of nine books and numerous articles and reviews. He was the founder and first president of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies and of the American Association for Research in Baghdad. Dr. Gibson's long-term involvement with questions related to cultural heritage led to his publication of Lost Heritage, a listing of artifacts stolen from Iraq’s regional museums during the aftermath of the Gulf War. During and after the Gulf Crisis, he was featured in numerous TV, radio, and newspaper interviews on Iraq’s ancient past and the damage done to cultural monuments.

Pietro Giovanni Guzzo
Soprintendente Archeologico of Pompeii and Herculaneum
Pompeii, Italy

Pier Giovanni Guzzo assumed the position of Director of the Soprintendenza Archeologica of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 1995. Previously, Dr. Guzzo had served in the same capacity in Puglia (1986-1990) and Emilia-Romagna (1992-1995). In 1990-1992, he took over the responsibilities of Archaeological Director of the Soprintendenza Generale for post-earthquake interventions in Campania and Basilicata. He is an honorary or corresponding member of numerous archaeological institutions and was President of the Comitato di Settore per i Beni Archeologici from 1993 to 1997. The author of numerous publications and monographs on the archaeology of Greece and Magna Graeca, Dr. Guzzo teaches at the Institute for Architecture of Reggio Calabria, the University of Pisa, and the archaeological school of the Frederick II University in Naples.

Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer
Director, Antikensammlung, Preussicher Kulturbesitz
Staatliche Museen
Berlin, Germany

Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer has been the Director of the Antique Collection of the State Museum of Berlin since 1978. For this renowned collection, which includes the Hellenistic Greek Altar of Zeus Soter from Pergamon, Dr. Heilmeyer has organized major exhibitions of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art, architecture, and archaeology. He was appointed Professor of the Freien Universität in Berlin in 1977 and continues to hold a post as part-time Professor there.

Angela Howard
Professor of Art History, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Angela Howard's work recording Buddhist cave and cliff sculptures in remote areas of China has been funded by a series of National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships and has led to the article "Tang Buddhist Sculpture of Sichuan: Unknown and Forgotten," Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (1988). Dr. Howard is currently involved in organizing a major exhibition of sculpture from mainland China scheduled to open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2003. Her recent publications include The Imagery of the Cosmological Buddha, an article on the Dharani Pillar of Kunmin Yunnan, and the forthcoming Chinese Sculpture (with Wu Hong and Li Song), to be published jointly by Yale University Press and the Foreign Press, Beijing.

Pamela Jerome
Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Columbia University
New York, New York

Pamela Jerome is a registered architect and architectural conservator. She is an Associate with the conservation department of the New York architecture and engineering firm Wank Adams Slavin Associates and is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Historic Preservation Program (Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation). Her specialty is the conservation of archaeological sites. Ms. Jerome has worked on projects in the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Arabian peninsula, American Southwest, and South America, and she has published a number of papers on the conservation of earthen architecture and the design of protective shelters for archaeological sites. She has been Architectural Conservator and Architect for the British excavations at Palaikastro, Crete, since 1989 and Site Conservator for the excavation at Chersonesos, Crimea, since 1996.

Lawrence M. Kaye
Herrick, Feinstein LP
New York, New York

Lawrence Kaye heads the Art and International Law Practice Groups at the law firm of Herrick, Feinstein in New York and is currently involved in a number of art recovery cases that arise from World War II losses. Mr. Kaye was one of the lead attorneys in the landmark case of Federal Republic of Germany v. Elicofon, in which two early masterpieces by Albrecht Dürer stolen at the end of the Second World War were successfully recovered and returned to the Weimar Art Museum. He has also served as counsel for the Republic of Turkey in cultural property matters. He brought to a close the Republic's six-year litigation against the Metropolitan Museum to recover the fabled Lydian Hoard, which was returned to Turkey in 1993. Mr. Kaye served as an Advisor to the Republic of Turkey's delegation to the UNIDROIT Convention in 1995.

Thomas W. Killion
Director, Repatriation Program
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Washington, D.C.

Thomas W. Killion has served since 1993 as the Director of the Repatriation Program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. He has traveled widely and consulted with hundreds of Native American tribes on the documentation and return of ancestral remains and culturally sensitive objects. Killion was co-editor of Reckoning with the Dead: The Larsen Bay Repatriation and the Smithsonian Institution (Smithsonian, 1994) and has authored articles and other publications on repatriation and its impact on archaeology and museum research. He regularly participates in conferences and workshops on repatriation that involve tribal groups, government agencies, and researchers. Dr. Killion has a long-term commitment to archaeological research in Mexico and Central America. He currently co-directs the Hueyapan Archaeological Project in southern Veracruz, on Mexico's Gulf Coast.

Maria Papageorge Kouroupas
Executive Director, Cultural Property Advisory Committee
United States Information Agency
Washington, D.C.

Maria Papageorge Kouroupas is the executive director of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee, which advises the United States Information Agency in implementing the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the pillage of cultural property and its illicit movement across international boundaries. Prior to joining USIA in 1984, Ms. Kouroupas administered the international programs of the American Association of Museums. There she developed "International Partnerships Among Museums," the only museum-to-museum institutional linkage program of its kind. While at the AAM she contributed a regular column to the international section of Museum News. Since joining USIA, she has published several articles on U.S. implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention and has participated in numerous conferences concerned with the protection of cultural heritage.

Jo Backer Laird
Vice President and Senior Counsel, Christie's Inc.
New York, New York

Jo Backer Laird, senior vice president and general counsel for Christie's Inc., joined the international auction house in October 1997. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Laird was a Principal at Morgan Stanley & Co., where she was involved in advisory work and litigation on employment-related issues as well as in the management and supervision of securities and other commercial litigation. Before joining Morgan Stanley in 1987, Ms. Laird spent seven years as a litigation associate for Davis Polk & Wardwell. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and a member of the faculty of the American Law Institute-American Bar Association.

Claire Lyons
Vice President, Professional Responsibilities, Archaeological Institute of America
Collections Curator, The Getty Research Institute
Los Angeles, California

Claire Lyons is Collections Curator at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles and a specialist in the archaeology of Sicily and southern Italy. Since 1995, Dr. Lyons has served as Vice President for Professional Responsibilities of the Archaeological Institute of America. Among her recent publications related to antiquities collecting and cultural heritage are “The Neapolitan Context of Hamilton’s Antiquities Collection,” Journal of the History of Collections 9.2 (1997) 229-39; “Responsabilità professionali: recenti iniziative dell’Istituto Archeologico d’America,” in P. Pelagatti, ed., Antichità senza provenienza (Viterbo 1997 conference proceedings), in press; and a response paper for “Claiming the Stones/Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity in the American and British Experience” (St. Johns College, Oxford, April 19-21, 1998), forthcoming.

Leonid Marchenko
Director, National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos
Sevastopol, Crimea (Ukraine)

Leonid Marchenko has been the Director of the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, near Sevastopol, Crimea (Ukraine), since 1985. He formerly served as the head of cultural institutions in Sevastopol. Dr. Marchenko has published extensively on the organization of agriculture, handicraft, and trade in ancient Chersonesos, the ecological environment of the Chersonesos state in the fourth and third centuries B.C., and the role of nature in the construction, planning, and topography of the ancient town. He is involved in the organization of an archaeological park in area of ancient Chersonesos and delivered a report on the project at the International Congress in Zakinto, Greece, in 1996.

William E. Martin
Consultant, Art Recovery
Los Angeles, California

William Martin created and implemented the art theft detail of the Los Angeles Police Department in 1980 and was its detective supervisor until his retirement in June, 1994. In 1987 he assisted in creating a computerized stolen art file that is still the only such file maintained by any local law enforcement agency in the United States. Detective Martin handled the investigation of hundreds of art thefts and maintained a clearance and recovery rate three times higher than the national average. In 1988, he served on the American delegation to the international symposium entitled "Theft and Illegal Trafficking of Cultural Property and Works of Art" held at Interpol Headquarters in Lyon, France. In 1992, he was appointed by President Bush to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee, on which he served until 1996.

Roderick James McIntosh
Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
Houston, Texas

Dr. Roderick James McIntosh’s major interests are in African and Old World comparative prehistory and a host of related fields as well as the international art market. Dr. McIntosh was involved in the birthing of the first bilateral accord banning the import of antiquities into a “market” nation (the United States) from a “source” nation (Mali). For the past twenty years, he has looked comparatively at the urban systems of the great Niger and Senegal floodplains, including co-directorship of investigations at Jenne-jeno, sub-Saharan Africa’s oldest city. His recent or in-press books deal with antiquities traffic (Plundering Africa’s Past), a synthesis of Middle Niger and West African prehistory (Peoples of the Middle Niger: Island of Gold, and Prehistoric Investigations at Jenne, Mali), and human response to global climate change (The Way the Wind Blows: Climate, History, and Human Action). An anthropology professor at Rice University, Dr. McIntosh is currently involved in the update of the classic Ancient Ghana and Mali, which will appear as Emerging Polities of the Western Sudan: Ancient Ghana and Mali.

John Henry Merryman
President Emeritus, The International Cultural Heritage Society
Sweitzer Professor of Law, Emeritus, Stanford University
Stanford, California

John Henry Merryman is Sweitzer Professor of Law and Cooperating Professor of Art Emeritus at Stanford University, where he teaches "Art and the Law." He was a member of the UNIDROIT Working Group that prepared the preliminary draft UNIDROIT Convention. Professor Merryman is the founder of the International Journal of Cultural Property and co-author, with the late Albert E. Elsen, of Law, Ethics, and the Visual Arts (3rd edition 1998).

Jenifer Neils
Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio

Jenifer Neils is the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University. She is a classical archaeologist who has excavated in Italy and Greece, is the author of several books on ancient Athens, and has been on the curatorial staff of the Cleveland Museum of Art. In 1996, she was a Fellow at CWRU’s Center for Professional Ethics and currently serves as the Chair of the Museums and Exhibitions Committee of the Archaeological Institute of America. She has lectured in the US and Europe on issues relating to cultural property and will discuss the debate over the Parthenon marbles in a chapter of her forthcoming book on the Parthenon frieze. She is also the author/editor of The Youthful Deeds of Theseus (1987), Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (1992), and Worshipping Athena: Panathenaia and Parthenon (1996).

Patrick J. O'Keefe
Author, Trade in Antiquities: Reducing Destruction and Theft, 1997
Consultant, Cultural and Heritage Law
Paris, France

Patrick J. O'Keefe has specialized for the past twenty-two years in heritage law and management. He is the author of over one hundred books, reports, and articles on the subject, including Trade in Antiquities: Reducing Destruction and Theft (1997) and, as co-author, the five-volume series Law and Cultural Heritage (of which the first two volumes have been published). In 1994, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in London. Chairman of the International Cultural Heritage Law Committee of the International Law Association since its foundation in 1988, O'Keefe is also a member of the International Bar Association, ICOM, ICOMOS, Heritage Interpretation International, and numerous other bodies. He has initiated or advised on a number of important international instruments (including the Scheme for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Within the Commonwealth; the European Convention on Protection of the Archaeological Heritage (Revised) 1992; the Council of Europe Recommendation on Historical Complexes) and national legislative projects in the heritage field. Now a consultant and author, O'Keefe previously had a distinguished career as an administrator in the Australian Public Service and then as an academic at the University of Sydney.

Engin Ozgen
Professor of Archaeology, Hacettepe University
Ankara, Turkey

A native of Ankara, Turkey, Engin Ozgen graduated from the Department of Prehistory at Istanbul University in 1973. He received his Ph.D. in classical archaeology in 1979 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with a Fulbright grant. From 1993 to 1996, he served as the General Director of Monuments and Museums in the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Turkey. Dr. Özgen is currently a full professor of archaeology at Hacettepe University in Ankara and chairs the Department of Classical Archaeology. Since 1990, he has been excavating at the site of Oylum Hüyük, near Kilis in southeastern Turkey.

John K. Papadopoulos
Associate Curator, Department of Antiquities
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, California

John Papadopoulos served as Deputy Director of the Australian Archaeological Insitute at Athens from 1987 to 1991. He was Assistant Professor in Classical Archaeology at the University of Sydney in 1991-1993 and has been Associate Curator of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum since 1994. He has excavated widely in Australia, Greece and Italy and is currently Deputy Director of the excavations at Torone in northern Greece.

Robert K. Paterson
Professor, School of Law, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada

Robert K. Paterson is a professor of law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is a member of the bars of New Zealand and British Columbia. Apart from the areas of international economic law and corporations, Professor Paterson specializes in cultural property law. Professor Paterson co-authored a report on the Repatriation of Aborigian Cultural Heritage for the Canadian Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1994). He is a member of the Cultural Heritage Law Committee of the International Law Association and an Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Cultural Property. In 1994, he organized an international conference at the University of British Columbia, "The Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Property" (the proceedings of which appear as a Special Issue of the U.B.C. Law Review (1995)). Most recently, he wrote chapters in M. Phelan, The Law of Cultural Property and Natural Heritage: Protection, Transfer, and Access (1998).

Olenka Pevny
Associated Director's Office for Special Exhibitions
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York

Olenka Z. Pevny's research focuses on Medieval Eastern Europe, specifically Ukraine, Belarus', and Russia, where she has carried out extensive on-site work. Currently, Dr. Pevny is employed by the Associated Director's Office for Special Exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is editing a volume of scholarly papers on Byzantine culture for the museum. Prior to this, as the Research Assistant for the Glory of Byzantium exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in 1997, she managed the participation of Eastern European countries in the exhibition. She is the author of the essay "Kievan Rus'" and twenty-five catalogue entries in the Glory of Byzantium catalogue, and her translations of art-historical articles from English into Ukranian have appeared in Ukranian journals. This summer, Dr. Pevny participated in the excavation at Chersonesos in the Crimea led by the University of Texas at Austin.

Lyndel V. Prott
Chief, International Standards Section
Division of Cultural Heritage, UNESCO
Paris, France

Lyndel Prott is one of the leading experts on the legal protection of cultural heritage. Formerly Professor of Cultural Heritage Law at the University of Sydney, she now administers UNESCO's legal instruments for the protection of cultural heritage. Author or co-author of over 170 publications in the fields of international law, legal philosophy, comparative law, and cultural heritage law, she has been working on legal issues related to illicit traffic in cultural objects since 1976 and has been a Chief of Section at UNESCO since 1990.

Andrea Francesco Giovanni Rascher
Deputy Head of Legal Services, Federal Office of Culture
Zurich, Switzerland

Andrea F. G. Raschèr received a degree in law from Zurich University, where he was awarded the Walther Hug Award for the best Swiss juridical thesis. Since 1995, he has been deputy director of the Legal Service of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture. He was a member of the Swiss delegation at the UNIDROIT Conference in Rome in 1995 and is responsible for legal matters in cultural heritage law. He is in charge of the project "The Import of Cultural Goods into Switzerland after 1993 and Looted Art." Mr. Raschèr is also currently a lecturer on cultural heritage law at the Fachhochschule in Berne and a board member of the Swiss Institute for Comparative Law. His forthcoming book is a background study of the UNIDROIT Convention and will be published in both German and English.

Miguel Covarrubias Reyna
National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH)
Merida, Mexico

Miguel Covarrubias Reyna, a native of Mexico and member of the prominent Covarrubias family of artists and anthropologists, currently heads the federal INAH-PROCEDE Project in Mexico. In collaboration with the Instituto Nacional Antropologia e Historia, PROCEDE establishes legal boundaries for archaeological sites in the Yucatan and raises local awareness concerning cultural heritage conservation. In 1995, Mr. Covarrubias directed a new government employment program focused on the protection of Mayan archaeological sites. Mr. Covarrubias has spoken at conferences in Pachuca, San Luis Potosí, and Mérida on the subjects of protection and conservation.

Magdalena Morales Rojas
Director of Conservation, Coordinacion Nacional de Restauracion del Patrimonio
Mexico City, Mexico

Since 1995, Magdalena Morales Rojas has been Director of Conservation for the Coordinaciòn Nacional de Restauraciòn del Patrimonio, a division the Instituto Nacional Antropologia e Historia (INAH) of Mexico. She has also worked as the conservator for the Mexican Folk Art Collection at the San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas, as the head conservator of the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City, Mexico, and as a conservator for the National University of Mexico collections. Dr. Rojas's special projects have included the conservation of colossal eighteenth-century wooden sculptures for the Bamberg Conservation Company in Germany as well as work with the Rockefeller Collection of South Pacific Art in Hawaii and for the Amazonas Theater in Brazil.

John Malcolm Russell
Professor of Art and Archaeology, Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, Massachusetts

Prior to the Gulf War, John Malcolm Russell was Associate Director of the archaeological excavations at Nineveh, Iraq. Dr. Russell is the author of four books and numerous articles on ancient Assyria, and his most recent book, The Final Sack of Nineveh (Yale), investigates the destruction of Sennacherib's palace in Iraq as a result of looting precipitated by the United Nations sanctions. His discovery of a lost Assyrian sculpture in an English boys' school and his exposure of the looting of Assyrian palaces in Iraq have been widely reported in the media. Professor Russell teaches the art and archaeology of the ancient Middle East and Egypt at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and is the Associate Director of the excavations at the Assyrian site of Tell Ahmar in Syria.

Catherine Sease
Conservation and Collections Management, The Field Museum
Chicago, Illinois

Catherine Sease is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and has a graduate degree in archaeological conservation from the Institute of Archaeology, University of London. She has extensive experience as a field conservator on archaeological excavations in Britain, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East and is the author of A Conservation Manual for the Field Archaeologist. In 1979, she joined the staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she was the conservator in charge of the installation of the Rockefeller Wing. After working for two years as a private conservator, she became in 1986 a conservator at the Field Museum in Chicago, where she is currently Head of Conservation and Collections Management for Anthropology. In 1990, she served as an expert witness in the Kanakaria mosaics case and since then has written and lectured on the role of conservation in the antiquities trade.

Daniel Shapiro
Attorney at Law
Chairman, Editorial Board, International Journal of Cultural Property
New York, New York

After beginning his career as a teacher of philosophy, specializing in areas of value theory, Daniel Shapiro became a lawyer, now with an exclusive practice in art, intellectual and cultural property law. He is the President of the International Cultural Property Society, which sponsors the International Journal of Cultural Property, and is chair of its Editorial Board. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, where he teaches art law, and will be teaching cultural property at Columbia Law School.

Samuel Sidibe
Director, Musee National
Bamako, Mali

Samuel Sidibé has been Director of the National Museum of Mali in Bamako since 1987. After archaeological studies in France, he worked from 1982 to 1986 at the Institut des Sciences Humaines (Bamako). During this period he undertook archaeological field research, particularly in the inland delta of the Niger River. As Director of the National Museum, he implemented many research and exhibition programs. The protection of cultural heritage and the fight against illicit traffic is also one of his major acitivities. Mali is the first and only country in Africa that has signed a cultural property agreement with the Government of the United States. Dr. Sidibé has also been responsible for the African tour of the international exhibition "Vallées du Niger."

Jenny Fong-Suk So
Curator of Ancient Chinese Art
Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Washington, District of Columbia

Jenny So has been a curator of Chinese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. since 1990 and was appointed Senior Curator in April 1998. Dr. So studies the role of weapons, jewelry, and other precious objects in the society and trading patterns of Bronze Age China. Her recent publications include "Innovations in Ancient Chinese Metalwork" in China 5000 Years: Innovation and Transformation in the Arts (New York, Solomon T. Guggenheim Museum, 1998), and, with Emma C. Bunker, Traders and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier (1995). In addition, Dr. So is an authority on the history of modern archaeology in China

John Stubbs
Vice President, Programs, World Monuments Fund
New York, New York

John Stubbs is Vice President for Programs for the World Monuments fund based in New York and is in charge of planning and coordinating the organization's various field projects and related activities in some 16 countries. In his role as overseer of WMF's World Monuments Watch Program, he is responsible for the tracking of progress at some 115 additional sites. Prior to joining WMF, Mr. Stubbs served for ten years as Assistant Director of Historic Preservation Projects at Beyer Blinder Belle, Architects and Planners in New York City. He is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, attended the International Centre for the Conservation of Cultural Property in Rome (ICCROM), and worked for two years as an Historical Architect for the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. In addition to his work with WMF, Mr. Stubbs is currently an Adjunt Associate Professor at Columbia University's Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, where he teaches "The Theory and Practive of Historic Preservation" and "The Language and Literature of Architectural Classicism."

Robin Thornes
Coordinator, Object Identification Program, Getty Information Institute
Malibu, California

Robin Thornes was appointed coordinator of the project to develop Object ID, initiated by the Getty Information Institute, in 1994. From 1981 to 1994, he worked for the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, becoming Head of Architectural Survey in 1992. In 1990, Dr. Thornes joined the Council of Europe specialist working group that developed the Council's "Core Data Index to Historic Buildings and Monuments of the Architectural Heritage." In 1996 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and appointed to the Executive Committee of the Council for the Prevention of Art Theft (CoPAT-UK).

Tereba Togola
Director of Arts and Culture, National Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Bamako, Mali

As National Director of Art and Culture of Mali, Téréba Togola has been greatly involved in efforts to reduce looting of archaeological sites in his native country. From 1992-1998, he served as Head of the Archaeology Department at the Institut des Sciences Humaines du Mali and as Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the Higher Teachers Training College of Bamako. His recent articles include "The good collector and the premise of mutual respect among nations" (African Arts, 1995) and "Mali's many shields of its past" (Non-Renewable Resources, 1997), written in collaboration with Roderick James MacIntosh and Boubacar Diaby.

Marion True
Curator of Ancient Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum
Malibu, California

Marion True is Assistant Director for Villa Planning and Curator of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum. After her appointment as Curator of Antiquities in 1986, Dr. True worked to formulate an acquisition policy for works of ancient art at the Getty Museum. As outlined in the policy, when considering the purchase of an ancient object, the Getty Museum contacts the countries of possible origin and the International Foundation for Art Research to determine whether there are any outstanding claims against the material. The Getty's acquisition policy was revised in 1995 to require any object under consideration be published prior to that year. Dr. True has collaborated on a number of symposia, exhibitions and related publications, including A Passion for Antiquities: Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman (Malibu, 1994). She is currently working on plans for the renovated Getty Villa, which will reopen to the public in 2001 as a center for comparative archaeology and cultures.

Stephen K. Urice
Program Director, Culture Department, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Stephen Urice was appointed this year as a program officer at the Pew Charitable Trusts with responsibility for the trusts' national culture program. He holds both a Ph.D. in art history and a law degree, and he directed the excavation of the early Islamic site of Qasr Kharana in Jordan before becoming an attorney specializing in art and museum law matters. Dr. Urice has taught art law at UCLA Law School and currently teaches a similar course at the law school of the University of Pennsylvania. He has served on the faculty of the American Law Institute/American Bar Association's annual course Legal Problems of Museum Administration since 1990. Prior to his appointment at the Pew Charitable Trusts, Dr. Urice served as director of the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia.

David A. Walden
Director, Movable Cultural Property, Department of Canadian Heritage
Ottowa, Canada

David A. Walden holds the positions of Secretary to the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board and Director of the Movable Cultural Property Program in the Department of Canadian Heritage. As such, he is responsible for all aspects of the administration of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act and its regulations, as well as the implementation in Canada of the 1970 UNESCO Convention. Mr. Walden was the Canadian representative on the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation from 1985 to 1991. With Canada's re-election to the Intergovernmental Committee in 1995, he was elected Chairman of the Committee in 1996 for a two-year term. In 1997, he led the Canadian delegation that negotiated the agreement between Canada and the United States placing import restrictions on some categories of archaeological and ethnological material.

Victor Wiener
President, Appraisers Association of America
New York, New York

Victor Wiener is the Executive Director of the Appraisers Association of America, which is an international organization of 1,200 members engaged in the profession of appraising art. His responsibilities include the implementation of all Association programs, including a newsletter and journal, the analysis and monitoring of the art market, public relations, and liaison activities. He also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the New York University Appraisal Studies Program, School of Continuing Education. Prior to joining the Appraisers Association, Mr. Wiener held positions with a variety of art-related insitutions, including Consultant for Sotheby's and La Cassa di Risparmio in Italy; Director, Fine Arts Department for Christie's in Rome; and Instructor of Art History at Finch College International Study Program, also in Rome. Mr. Wiener has written numerous articles regarding the art market and has been actively involved in art-related conferences and seminars.

John Yarwood
Reconstruction Director
European Union Administration of Mostar, 1994-1997
JPK Group
St. Petersburg, Russia

John Yarwood specializes in architectural reconstruction and has worked as a consultant for cultural heritage and disaster recovery projects in Turkey, Jamaica, Germany, Ireland, Finland, Dubai, Kuwait, and the Philippines as well as the United Kingdom. From 1994 to 1997, he was seconded by the British Government to serve as Director of Reconstruction for the European Union Administration of Mostar in Bosnia-Hercegovina. This body had the goal of political reconciliation but was also required to undertake large-scale repair and reconstruction of a war-torn city. Since then, Dr. Yarwood has been a member of several World Bank missions to China and is now working in St. Petersburg on the City Centre Regeneration Project. His book, Rebuilding Mostar: Urban Revival in a War Zone, is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press.

Zou Heng
Professor, Department of Archaeology, Peking University
Beijing, China

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