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2019 HADRIAN GALA Welcome and Announcement of the MENU 2020 World Monuments Watch Lorna B. Goodman RAINBOW ROOM OCTOBER 29, 2019 Chair, World Monuments Fund Bénédicte de Montlaur CHARRED HASS AVOCADO Chief Executive Officer, World Monuments Fund Cashew Crème Fraîche, Shaved Root Vegetables, Timothy J. McClimon Roasted Cashews & Black Garlic President, American Express Foundation MUSTARD CRUSTED STRIPED BASS Charred Leek Emulsion with Squid Ink, Presentation of the 2019 Hadrian Award Potato “Risotto” & Chanterelles by Bernard-Henri Lévy Honoring DESSERT TRIO Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan New York Cheesecake 2019 Hadrian Award recipient Chocolate Panna Cotta Meyer Lemon Tart COFFEE Presentation of the 2019 Watch Award by Lorna Goodman PINOT GRIGIO, SANTI Honoring Veneto, Italy HRH Princess Dana Firas 2019 Watch Award recipient PINOT NOIR, BACCHUS ‘GINGER’S CUVÉE’ California LEADERSHIP SUPPORT PROVIDED BY GALA CHAIRS World Monuments Fund World Monuments Fund (WMF) is the leading private, non- profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the world’s cultural heritage. For over half a century, WMF has led the way in conserving architectural and cultural sites that span the VICE CHAIRS Margaret H. Douglas- CONTRIBUTIONS history of human civilization. Our success on behalf of heritage Lorna & Edwin Goodman Hamilton Nanda & Vijay Anand preservation includes work with local communities and partners Bernard & Lisa Selz Tasnim & Sultan-Karim Paul Beirne at more than 600 sites in over 120 countries. Through fieldwork, Ebrahim Carolyn & Laurence Belfer BENEFACTORS advocacy, education, and training, we help preserve important Jacqueline M. Garrett William Bernhard monuments, buildings, and sites around the globe, from simple American Express David & Sylvia Goodman Elizabeth & Jean-Marie vernacular structures to our highest cultural expressions, Brook & Roger Berlind Susan Horowitz Eveillard ensuring a future for the world’s irreplaceable treasures. Sara Goodman James E. Jordan Pamela & David B. Ford Thea Goodman Bicky Kellner Sam & Shelia Gavish Monika McLennan Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Godinich 2020 World Monuments Watch Hélène Marie Peter Kimmelman Agnes Gund The World Monuments Watch is a global program that brings & Jake Shafran Margo Langenberg Marlene Hess & Jim Zirin attention to sites where heritage conservation can have a Margo Leavin Lori & Marc Kasowitz PATRONS tremendous impact on the well-being of communities. Igor Levental Adrienne Knapp Mark Fletcher The biennial announcement of each new cycle highlights the Anne Kriken Mann Dorothy Lichtenstein & Tobias Meyer challenges that can befall heritage places—from the little-known Virginia A. Millhiser Jennifer & Marc Lipschultz French American Cultural to the universally recognized—and suggests the potential for the Otto Naumann Jane Henderson Maynard Exchange Foundation process of heritage conservation to create beneficial outcomes for Warrie & James David Price Robert Ohlerking Fernanda M. Kellogg communities and entire societies. Rodrigo Rodriquez Andrea Olshan & Kirk Henckels Mrs. Simon Roosevelt & Michael Odell Nora & Jack Kerr The 25 sites selected for the 2020 Watch combine great historical Sana H. Sabbagh General David H. Petraeus Jennifer Yu Koh significance with contemporary social impact and face daunting Annabelle Selldorf Mr. & Mrs. & Glenn Koh threats such as encroaching urbanization, political turmoil, Ellen Phelan & Joel Shapiro Benjamin M. Rosen Dr. Marilyn Perry natural disaster, and violent conflicts. Since the launch of Claude Wasserstein Lisa & David T. Schiff Melissa Stewart the Watch program in 1996, Watch sites have represented the Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Anthony V. Thompson majority of field projects that WMF has undertaken. DeForest Scott LEADERSHIP This evening we invite you to explore the extraordinary BENEFIT COMMITTEE CONTRIBUTIONS Bradford H. places included on the 2020 World Monuments Watch and the Prince Amyn Aga Khan Jody & John Arnhold & Nancy A. Walker opportunities they represent for communities around the globe. Janine Atamian Mica Ertegün Tony Bechara Linn & Robert Feidelson List as of 10/22/2019 Special thanks to American Express, founding Wendy & Robert Brandow Deborah M. Lehr sponsor of the World Monuments Watch, Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Butler Heatherington Butterfield & Robinson Henricks Lenkin as well as our 2020 World Monuments Watch supporters Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and The Ford Foundation. World Monuments Fund would also like to thank Veronique Gabai and Agata & Valentina for their contributions to this evening’s gift bags. DR. THOMAS S. KAPLAN World Monuments PAST GALA HONOREES 2019 HADRIAN HONOREE Fund Hadrian Gala 2018 Prince Amyn Aga Khan Honorees (Hadrian Award) Educated in Switzerland, Thomas S. Kaplan attended Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler (Hadrian Award) Pembroke College at the University of Oxford where, 2017 Deborah Lehr (Hadrian Award) spurred by a fascination with antiquity ever since Each year, World Monuments Fund Frank Stella (Watch Award) 2016 Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) childhood, he earned his Bachelor’s, Master’s and DPhil presents the Hadrian Award to honor (Hadrian Award) degrees in history. Residing in New York and Paris with international leaders and champions Tomas Maier (Watch Award) his wife and partner, Daphne Recanati Kaplan, and their of heritage who have advanced the 2015 Her Majesty Queen Sofia three children, he is the Chairman of The Electrum (Hadrian Award) understanding, appreciation, and Her Excellency Sheikha Mai bint Group LLC, past President and Chairman of the 92nd preservation of the world’s art and Mohammed Al Khalifa Street Y, Founder and Chairman of the leading felid (Watch Award) architecture. The award was inspired conservation organization Panthera, and Founder of 2014 Mica Ertegün (Hadrian Award) by the Roman Emperor Hadrian Ellsworth Kelly* (Hadrian Award) The Leiden Collection – the largest private collection of 2013 Roberto Hernández Ramírez (A.D. 76–138), who reigned for Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age. Since 2017 Dr. Kaplan has served as Chairman of the (Hadrian Award) International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (ALIPH), a Franco- twenty-one years and is remembered Andrew B. Cogan and Knoll (Watch Award) for his patronage of the arts and Emirati initiative that funds preventive, emergency response, and restoration programs 2012 Kenneth I. Chenault, Chairman and for endangered cultural property around the world. Among other distinctions, he was for creating innovative and iconic Chief Executive Officer, American appointed Chevalier in France’s National Order of the Legion of Honor, Commandeur in buildings. Remembered as the Express (Hadrian Award) The Duke of Devonshire KCVO, France’s Order of Arts and Letters, and Officier in the Netherlands’ Order of Orange-Nassau. restorer, Hadrian traveled across the CBE DL (Watch Award) considerable breadth of his empire, 2011 Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder (Hadrian Award) presiding over building programs Marcella Pérez de Cuéllar* HRH PRINCESS DANA FIRAS that included the rebuilding of the (Inaugural Watch Award) 2010 Ratan Tata and the Tata Family 2019 WATCH HONOREE Pantheon in Rome and the completion 2009 David Rockefeller, Jr. of the Temple of Olympian Zeus in 2008 Houghton*, Doreen* and Graeme Freeman HRH Princess Dana Firas is a global advocate for Athens, which had begun some five 2007 Rahmi Koç and the Koç Family heritage protection and preservation as a foundation centuries earlier. The Watch Award 2006 His Highness The Maharaja of Jodhpur for development, responsible tourism, political was created in 2011 to recognize 2005 The Right Honorable John Julius, identity and participation. Her Royal Highness The Viscount Norwich* extraordinary individual activism and 2004 Carlos Slim Helú currently serves as President of the Petra National achievement that keeps historic sites 2003 Eugene V. Thaw* Trust (PNT), Jordan’s oldest national nongovernmental 2002 Hélène and Michel David-Weill vital in the contemporary world. organization in the field of heritage protection and 2001 The Honorable James D. Wolfensohn 2000 Harvey Golub preservation. Her work since the early 1990s has 1999 Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover K.G. aimed to promote heritage preservation, education Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan and HRH The Honorable Simon Sainsbury and sustainable development across private, public Princess Dana Firas join an Sir Timothy Sainsbury 1998 Richard Hampton Jenrette impressive roster of champions whose and civil society, including projects with HM Queen 1997 Phyllis Lambert Noor and the establishment of non-governmental organizations that promote heritage leadership inspires the protection of 1996 His Highness The Aga Khan preservation and environmental protection. Since 2008, Her Royal Highness has chaired the world’s architectural and cultural 1995 Lord Rothschild 1994 David Rockefeller, Sr.* the Board of the Petra National Foundation (PNF), and in 2017, she was designated a heritage. The Board of Trustees of 1993 Dominique de Ménil* UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. She is a founding member of The Mohammad and World Monuments Fund is proud to 1992 Marella and Giovanni Agnelli* Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation and the Friends of Jordan Museum, as well as the 1991 Mrs. Vincent Astor* honor them for their considerable 1990 His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales Patron of the Friends of Manar al-Athar. Her Royal Highness holds a BA degree from contributions to the preservation of 1989 Paul Mellon* Boston University in economics and international relations, an MSc in Development 1988 Carlo De Benedetti the world’s shared cultural heritage. Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. *Deceased .