2014 World Monuments Watch WMF Staff Bios BONNIE BURNHAM, President and Chief Executive Officer, joined World Monuments Fund as Executive Director in 1985 and was named President in 1996. Previously, she was Executive Director of the International Foundation for Art Research. Ms. Burnham has been honored as a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government, is a Distinguished Alumna of the College of Fine Arts of the University of Florida, and was the first recipient of its Beinecke-Reeves Distinguished Achievement Award in Historic Preservation. She received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Florida Southern College in 2009. Ms. Burnham has served on the boards of the National Institute of Conservation and the Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation. She is currently on the board of the New York Studio School and is a member of the United States Commission for UNESCO and the Board of Advocates, College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida. She holds degrees in art history from the University of Florida and the Sorbonne. LISA ACKERMAN was named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of World Monuments Fund in 2007. Previously Ms. Ackerman served as Executive Vice President of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. She serves on the boards of Historic House Trust of New York City, New York Preservation Archive Project, and US/ICOMOS. In 2007 she received the Historic District Council’s Landmarks Lion award, and in 2008 was named the first recipient of the US/ICOMOS Ann Webster Smith Award for International Heritage Achievement. Ms. Ackerman holds a B.A. from Middlebury College, an M.S. in historic preservation from Pratt Institute, and an M.B.A. from New York University. ERICA AVRAMi joined World Monuments Fund in 2008 as Director of Research and Education. She manages the World Monuments Watch program, as well as WMF projects related to training, research, disaster recovery, and sustainability planning. Ms. Avrami is an adjunct assistant professor in the School of Architecture, Preservation and Preservation at Columbia University, and has taught in the preservation programs at the University of Pennsylvania and Pratt Institute. She previously worked at the Getty Conservation Institute. She holds a B.A. in architecture and an M.S. in historic preservation from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in planning and public policy from Rutgers University. AMITA BAIG, World Monuments Fund’s Representative in India, is a member of the Executive Committee of the National Culture Fund and the Advisory Committee on World Heritage Matters of the Government of India, and was a Government of India delegate to the UNESCO General Assembly in 2012 and to the World Heritage Committee in 2013. She is also a member of ICTC ICOMOS. She has worked with UNESCO Asia Pacific Region in the development of the Lijiang Models for Stakeholder Cooperation, was a consultant to the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Taj Mahal Conservation Collaborative, and an advisor to NIRLAC and the Jaisalmer Heritage Trust. She is a life member of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage. NORMA BARBACCI, who joined World Monuments Fund in 2001, is Director of Programs for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, managing all field projects and initiatives in these countries. Ms. Barbacci is a registered architect in the State of New York. Before joining WMF, she worked as a preservation architect at Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners for 12 years. Ms. Barbacci received her B.A. in architecture from Carnegie Mellon University, where she was awarded the AIA School Medal and Certificate from the Adams Fund for Excellence in the Study of Architecture. She received her M.S. in historic preservation from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Historic Preservation Thesis Award for her study of the adaptive reuse of a medieval residential complex in Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy. STEPHEN BATTLE, Program Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, is an architect with 20 years of professional experience managing conservation projects in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. He started on his professional path in Zanzibar, where he lived for five years working on a variety of projects in the historic Stone Town. He then worked for the Aga Khan Trust for Culture for over 10 years, based in Geneva, serving as project manager for conservation and urban rehabilitation projects in Aleppo (Syria), Zanzibar, and the Northern Areas of Pakistan. He joined World Monuments Fund in 2009. Mr. Battle received B.Sc. (Hons) in architecture from University College London, and an A.A. diploma from the Architectural Association in London. JONATHAN FOYLE was named Chief Executive of World Monuments Fund Britain in 2007. With a background in medieval and sixteenth-century British architecture, Dr. Foyle writes and broadcasts on a range of architectural and archaeological issues. He previously worked at the Historic Royal Palaces (Buildings Curator, Hampton Court and Kew) and Canterbury Cathedral (Purcell Miller Tritton Architects). He holds a B.A. (Hons) in architecture (RIBA I) and a postgraduate diploma in architecture (RIBA II) from the Canterbury School of Architecture; an M.A. in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London; and a Ph.D. in archaeology from the University of Reading, for which he received a British Academy postdoctoral research award. MITSUO INAGAKI joined World Monuments Fund as Representative for Japan in 2009. Previously Mr. Inagaki served as Executive Director of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at Google Japan, Inc. Before joining Google, he had been with American Express International, Inc., for 18 years (1988–2006), and was responsible for corporate philanthropy in Japan as Director of Public Affairs & Government Relations (1992–2006), covering the areas of cultural heritage, economic independence, and community service. He holds a B.A. in economics from Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan), and a second B.A., in journalism, from California State University, Fresno. Bonnie Burnham PIERRE JACKY, Director of WMF Europe, manages WMF’s European office in Paris and oversees a range of projects in continental Europe, including the European Fine Interiors program. Prior to joining the organization in 2004, he curated exhibitions, published on painting and stained glass, and advised private collectors and auction houses. Dr. Jacky has a licence in law from the Sorbonne, where he also received his Ph.D. in art history, specializing in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century European painting. YANN JUREZ-LANCIEN joined WMF Europe as Project Manager in 2012. He received his D.E.A. (French postgraduate diploma) in art history from the Sorbonne University in 1992 specializing in medieval art and architecture, with a particular focus on stained glass and wall paintings. Before joining WMF, he was an account manager in the casting workshop of the Louvre Museum, where his duties included the management of a database containing over 4,000 molds made from 1794 to present. He also managed the relationship between the workshop’s activities and its partners, including personnel at the Réunion des Musées Nationaux et du Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, regional and local authorities in France, and institutions abroad. He has also studied painting restoration and gilding. LIU CHANG, World Monuments Fund’s Country Representative for China since 2000, is an associate professor at the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, where he studied architecture from 1987 to 1992. He then spent six years working at the Palace Museum, deepening his knowledge of historic Chinese architecture and training as an architectural conservator. He received his doctorate at Tsinghua in 2002 and has played an active role in the fields of architectural history and conservation since then, especially focusing on historic wood structures in China. PABLO F. LONGORIA has been Project Director for Spain since 2000. In this capacity, Mr. Longoria has directed the restoration of the visitor center and several buildings in the Mercury Mines, in Almaden, and the Chapterhouse and Cloister of the Monastery of San Clemente in Toledo, and additionally worked on the restoration of the Alcazar in Toledo and the Palace of Davalos, in Guadalajara. Mr. Longoria has organized courses and lectured at the Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo in Santander. An architect specializing in the conservation and restoration of urban, architectural, and artistic patrimony, Mr. Longoria received an M.A. from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. MELISSA MARSHALL joined WMF Britain in 2011. She received her B.A. (Hons) in history of art from the University of Warwick in 1998 specializing in architectural history, and subsequently studied building conservation at the Architectural Association. She held the position of Grants Officer at the Heritage Lottery Fund between 2001 and 2007, responsible for assessing and managing funding to a range of projects in the north-west of England. In 2007 she joined Stockport Council as Conservation Project Manager, responsible for delivering conservation-led regeneration schemes, including the multi- million pound restoration of the town’s Victorian market hall and developing proposals for the repair and transformation of Bramall Hall and Park. She also ran the council’s heritage skills program providing unemployed people with practical skills- based training in the heritage sector. HENRY TZU NG, Executive Vice President, is responsible for institutional initiatives that encourage public-private partnerships and manages WMF programs for Japan, China, and modern architecture. Before joining WMF, Mr. Ng worked at the Municipal Art Society of New York, the American Academy in Rome, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. Mr. Ng has a B.S. from New York University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. GAETANO PALUMBO, Program Director for North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, joined World Monuments Fund in 2002 to manage the organization’s activities in these regions.