Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo graduated in economics and commerce and first came to contemporary art as a collector in the early ‘90s. Her passion for art was transformed into an…
Arturo Galansino has served as director general of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence since 2015. Art historian, curator and academic scholar, he studied in Turin, Milan and Paris, obtaining…
Adam D. Weinberg has served as the Alice Pratt Brown director of the Whitney Museum of American Art since 2003. During his tenure, the Whitney has presented dozens of critically acclaimed exhibitions…
Clare Farrell is an active citizen, devoting her creativity, her energy and, occasionally, her personal liberty to fight against climate collapse and the wider environmental crisis. As one of the…
Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani is engaged in the fields of formal and informal education. She is chairperson of Qatar Museums, the Doha Film Institute, Reach Out to Asia and the…
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Irina Bokova served two terms as director general of UNESCO from 2009 to 2017. She is the first woman to lead the organisation. Having graduated from Moscow State…
Audrey Ou is co-founder and C.E.O. of TRLab, a curated global platform that fuses NFT technology with fine art expertise. Along with fellow co-founder Xin Li Cohen, deputy chairman of Christie’s…
Brunello Cucinelli was born in 1953 into a peasant family in Castel Rigone, a 15th-century hamlet near Perugia. After obtaining a diploma as a building surveyor, he enrolled to study engineering but…
Dr. Mariko Silver is the president and C.E.O. of the Henry Luce Foundation, a private, independent, philanthropy N.G.O. that seeks to enrich public discourse by promoting innovative scholarship,…