Organization

BOARD OF THE FOUNDATION

Chairman:
Juan-Carlos Torres.
Vice-Chairman:
Stéphane Barbier-Mueller, Administrator.
Member:
François-Paul Journe, Founder and Chairman of F.P. Journe.
Director:
Laurence Mattet, Managing Director of the Musée Barbier-Mueller.


HONORARY COMMITTEE

Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Photographer, Film-Director, Academician of the Beaux-Arts, Chairman of the GoodPlanet Foundation.
Miquel Barceló, Painter, Sculptor.
Stéphane Martin, former Chairman and Managing Director of Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris (France).
Erik Orsenna, Writer, Member of the Académie française, French Conseiller d’État.
Bertrand du Vignaud, former President of World Monuments Fund Europe.


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Chairman: Stéphane Martin, former Chairman and Managing Director of Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris (France).
Marla C. Berns, Director of the Fowler Museum (a position sponsored by Shirley and Ralph Shapiro) and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles (USA).
Suzanne Preston Blier, Professor of African Art at Harvard University, Allen Whitehill Clowes, Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African-American Studies, Cambridge, MA (USA).
Daniela Bognolo, Research Associate at the CEMAf – Centre d’Etudes des Mondes Africains – (CNRS/Université Paris 1/EPHE/Université de Provence), formerly Professor of Fine Arts in Milan (Italy).
Anne-Marie Bouttiaux, ormer Head Curator of the ethnology section of the Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (Belgium).
Alain-Michel Boyer, Director of Research and Professor emeritus of African Art.
Lorenz Homberger, former Assistant Director and Curator in the African Art department at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich (Switzerland).
Steven Hooper, Professor of Visual Arts and Director of the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, University of East Anglia, Norwich (Great Britain).
Jonathan King, Von Hügel Fellow, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge (Great Britain).
Robyn Maxwell, former Senior Curator of Asian Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (Australia).
Cäsar Menz, Honorary Director of the Art and History Museums of Geneva (Switzerland).
Philippe Peltier, former Head Curator, in charge of the Unité Patrimoniale Océanie-Insulinde, at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris (France).
Klaus Schneider, former Director, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum – Kulturen der Welt, Cologne (Germany).
Boris Wastiau, Director of the MEG, Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève (Switzerland).