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
Marc Balcells – Journal of Art Crime, Editor
Aubrey Catrone – ARCA Provenance Programming Assistant
Noah Charney – Founding Director, ARCA; Journal of Art Crime, Editor-in-Chief
Urška Charney – JAC Designer and Distribution Director
Summer Clowers – ARCA Postgraduate Programming Assistant
Monica Di Stefano – Social Director, Italy Programming
Kirsten Hower – Alumni Coordinator
Marissa Marjos – ARCA Postgraduate Programming Assistant and International Events Coordination
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
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
Arthur Tompkins – Forensic Expert, District Court Judge, New Zealand Ministry of Justice – Hamilton, New Zealand
Lecturers and 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 tra#cking 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, Omnirisk Associate Director, 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 – ARCA Lecturer, Conflict Antiquities archaeologist, Det Norske Institutt i Roma – Rome, Italy
Valerie Higgins –ARCA Lecturer, Associate Professor and Program Director for Archaeology and Classics and MA Program in Sustainable Cultural Heritage, The American University of Rome – Rome, Italy
Charles Hill – Independent Art Crime Investigator, Former Detective Chief Investigator to the Antiques Squad Metropolitan Police, New Scotland Yard (Ret) – London, UK
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 – India Pride Project – Repubblica di Singapore
Ivan Macquisten –ARCA Lecturer, Director, ImacQ, Art Market Advisor to the UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Cultural Heritage, Former Editor Antiques Trade Gazette – London, UK
Marc Masurovsky –ARCA Lecturer, Co-founder, Holocaust Art Restitution Project, Acting Director ERR Project – Washington DC
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