Our People
The Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) is a Civil Society Organization which strives to raise visibility of issues and trends in art related criminal activity.
Directors
Lynda Albertson – Chief Executive Officer
Edgar Tijhuis – Academic Director, Italy Programming
Key Contributors
Samer Abdel Ghafour – International Coordinator for Capacity Evaluation and Development Cooperation
Stefano Alessandrini – Forensic Antiquities Analyst
Marc Balcells – Editor, Journal of Art Crime
Alice Bientinesi – Programmes Coordinator
Morgan Belzic – Forensic Antiquities Analyst
Noah Charney – Founding Director, ARCA; Journal of Art Crime, Editor-in-Chief
Urška Charney – Designer and Distribution Director, Journal of Art Crime
Summer Clowers – Recruitment Coordinator & Strategic Events Planning and Logistics
Monica Di Stefano – Social Director, Italy Programming
Dick Drent – Museum Security and Risk Analyst
Samuel Hardy – Forensic Antiquities Analyst
Kirsten Hower – Alumni Coordinator
Mark Masurovsky – World War II-era Provenance Research Advisor
Board of Trustees
Dennis Ahearn – Director of Security, Christies – London, UK
Lynda Albertson (ex officio) – ARCA Chief Executive Officer – Rome, Italy
Marc Balcells – Professor, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Professor, Associate, Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona, Spain
Noah Charney – ARCA Founder and President – Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dick Drent – Chief Executive Officer ISEG Consultancy, Advice & Investigations
Richard Ellis – Director, Art Management Group and former Head Art and Antiques Squad Metropolitan Police, New Scotland Yard (retired) – London, UK
General B(a) CC Giovanni Pastore – Vice-Commandant for the Comando Carabinieri per la Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale (Retired) – Rome, Italy
Edgar Tijhuis – Subject Matter Expert and Independent Researcher, Visiting Scholar, Inštitut za kriminologijo pri Pravni fakulteti v Ljubljani – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Judge Arthur Tompkins – Forensic Expert, District Court Judge, New Zealand Ministry of Justice – Hamilton, New Zealand
Lecturers and Expert Advisors
Stefano Alessandrini – ARCA Lecturer and Cerveteri Docent; Forensic Archaeologist, Avvocatura di Stato, Tribunale di Roma, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali – MiBAC – Rome, Italy
Morgan Belzic – French historian, archaeologist, and illicit tracking researcher of the École Pratique des Hautes Études – Paris, France
Duncan Chappell – ARCA Lecturer, Lawyer and Criminologist Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney Conjoint Professor in the School of Psychiatry at the University of NSW Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Australian Research Council’s Center of Excellence in Policing and Security. Former Director of the Australian Institute of Criminology (1987-1994) – Sydney, Australia
Crispin Corrado – Professor of Classical Archaeology, ARCA Academic Director 2013 – 2017, ARCA Academic Advisor 2017 to Present – Rome, Italy
Dick Drent – ARCA Lecturer, Museum Security Expert, Law Enforcement and National Security Expert Director, Managing Partner at International Security Expert Group (ISEG) & ISEG Training Center, Director at Omnirisk, Associate Director at Holland Integrity Group, Corporate Security Manager, Van Gogh Museum (retired) – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Maurizio Fiorilli – Emeritus, Vice Avvocato Generale dello Stato – Rome, Italy
Samuel Hardy – Conflict Antiquities archaeologist, Det Norske Institutt i Roma – Rome, Italy
Valerie Higgins – ARCA Lecturer, Associate Professor and Program Director for MA Program in Sustainable Cultural Heritage, The American University of Rome – Rome, Italy
Fabio Isman – Investigative Reporter and Journalist covering Antiquities and Cultural Heritage Protection – Rome, Italy
Matjaž Jager – Director, Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law – Ljubljana, Slovenia
S. Vijay Kumar – Founder, India Pride Project
Marcel Marée – ARCA Lecturer, Circulating Artefacts (CircArt) project partner, Assistant keeper of the British Museum’s Egyptian and Sudanese department at the British Museum
Marc Masurovsky – ARCA Lecturer, Co-founder, Holocaust Art Restitution Project
Roberta Mazza – Professor, University of Manchester
Eric Nemeth – Cultural Security Analyst, CulturalSecurity.net and RAND Corporation – Santa Monica, California
Fabrizio Rossi – ARCA Lecturer, Luogotenente (Ret) Italian Comando Carabinieri per la Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale – Rome, Italy
Laurie Rush – ARCA Lecturer, Board Member, US Committee of the Blue Shield – Ft. Drum, New York
Dorit Straus – ARCA Lecturer, Independent Insurance Consultant, (Ret) Vice President and Worldwide Specialty Fine Art Manager for Chubb & Son, a division of Federal Insurance Company – NYC, New York
Yagna Yass-Alston – ARCA Lecturer, Independent Provenance Researcher – NYC, New York