Biographies
Laretna T. Adishakti is a Lecturer and Coordinator of the Center for Heritage Conservation at the Department of Architecture and Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She is also a member of Board of Directors Indonesian Heritage Trust and Chairperson of Jogja Heritage Society. Currently, Laretna facilitates the International Field School on Asian Heritage; member of the Asian Academy for Heritage Management, UNESCO-ICCROM; the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), and the Eisenhower Fellowship. Her scholarly activities include projects such as “Post Earthquake Recovery of Tamansari”, “Kotagede Heritage District Revitalization”, “Rethinking of Borobudur as Cultural Landscape Heritage”, “Infill Design in Heritage District”, etc. Besides research, Laretna serves as architect and jewelry designer, and she regularly participates in painting exhibitions in Yogyakarta. Laretna received her Doctorate in Engineering from Kyoto University, while her Master of Architecture degree is from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.
Joan van Albada was the President of the International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS) from 2006 to 2008. He entered the profession in the early 1970s and directed the archives services of the municipalities of Tilburg, ‘s-Hertogenbosch and Dordrecht successively. He has served the Association of Dutch Archivists (KVAN) and the Association of Municipal Archivists (KALO) in various capacities, and in 1991, he was director of the Maastricht Conference “Archives and Europe without Boundaries”. Having served ICA in a number of roles (on the Section of Professional Associations, the Section for Municipal Archives and the Executive Committee, as founding editor of Janus and director of publications, and carrying out several special missions) , in 1998, he was elected as the Secretary General of the ICA. He has taught user services at the Dutch Archives School and published articles in many professional journals on a wide variety of subjects.
Julien Anfruns has been the Director General of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) since October 2008. He was in charge of Economic and Financial Affairs at the French Ministry of Culture and Communication from 2002 to 2005 and the Director of Financial and Legal Affairs at the Louvre Museum from 2005 to 2008. At the Louvre Museum, he was involved in the museum’s strategic development missions both in France and abroad. He also occupied several diplomatic posts at the United Nations in New York, as well as in Finland and Estonia. Since January 2009 he has served as the President of the International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS).
Gerrit de Bruin, Senior Consultant Conservation of the National Archive, has worked for over 30 years in the field of paper conservation and restoration at the Nationaal Archief (National Archives) of the Netherlands in The Hague. His education is in paper and book conservation. From 1978-1994, he was head of conservation of the National Archives, and conservation policy analyst for the Central Board of the State Archives Service, from 1994-1998, head of department of archive conservation and from 1998 head of the international conservation centre.
In this time, he had worked in several roles: as a restorer, head of restoration, a policy analyst, and as head of archival conservation. He has experience in the field of training programs as a member of the committee of the training school of conservators in Amsterdam and in developing training programs for repository co-workers.
Karl von Habsburg has been the President of the Paneuropean Movement in Austria since 1986 and a member of the Internatrional Board of the Paneuropean Movement since 1994. From 1996 to 1999 he was a member of the European Parliament and served as a spokesman for human rights and minority rights for the Christian Democratic Group (EPP), a member of the Delegation for South-east Europe, a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and a draftsman for the European Parliament Report on Ethnic Minorities Rights. From 2002 to 2003 he served as the Director-General of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO). He was educated in Law and Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Salzburg and the Michigan State University (MSU).
He started his military career in 1981 when he joined the Austrian Army for training as a reserve officer career. He has been the President of the European Military Paratroopers Association (EMPA) since 2001 and the Cultural Property Protection Officer (CPPO) since 2003, first with the staff of the Military Command of Salzburg, later with the Armed Forces High Command. As an expert and a consultant in International Humanitarian Law concerning Cultural Property Protection in relation with military aspects, he has offered lectures at regional seminars of ICRC and UNESCO.
Marja van Heese is an art historian (Leiden University). Since 1994 she has been an inspector at the State Inspectorate for Cultural Heritage, an independent directorate within the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in The Hague. The State Inspectorate focuses among other things on state-owned collections housed in national museums and the Netherlands Institute of Cultural Heritage as well as on objects protected under the Preservation Cultural Heritage Act. Within the State Inspectorate, she is responsible for ensuring implementation of EU and international legislation on cultural good and has written several articles on the protection of cultural heritage. She takes a special interest in the prevention of art theft and the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural goods.
Richard B. “Dick” Jackson is the Special Assistant to the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters. He has served in that position since 2005, when he retired from the U.S. Army after over 30 years in uniform. Dick Jackson has extensive experience in the law of war and international and operational law, in general. He served in Infantry, Special Forces, Joint and Coalition commands during his military career, spending most of the last ten years as the principal legal advisor at a U.S. Army Division, Multinational Division North in Bosnia, the Army Special Operations Command, U.S. Army Pacific, and Joint Forces Command – Naples, a NATO Headquarters. He served in military operations in Panama, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Iraq. He was also the Chair of the International and Operational Law Department of the Army Judge Advocate General’s School, in Charlottesville, Virginia, and has written extensively in professional publications and lectured around the world on law of war matters. Colonel Jackson also represented the U.S. government in several international conferences and negotiations regarding arms control, the law of war, and protection of cultural property.
Catrini Pratihari Kubontubuh was graduated Bachelor degree of Urban and Regional Planning Institute Technology of Bandung, 1996 and Master degree of Architecture in Human Settlement, Universiteit of Katholieke Leuven, Belgium, 1997. She served as guest lecturer at local and international universities. She has strong eagerness in heritage activities shown by her voluntary works and intention as founder for some Heritage Trust organizations around Indonesia. She was elected as the Executive Director of Indonesian Heritage Trust for the period 2007-2010. In 2007 she received award for her 10 years dedication in heritage conservation, recognized as one of ten "Most Indonesian Inspiring Women". She is also a regular contributor for Asia Heritage Magazine since 2008. She currently works as consultant for Social Sector of The World Bank Jakarta Office. She specializes in Heritage safeguard for program in Nias Island, Yogyakarta, Central Java and some other projects in Indonesia related with community base and culture creativities for rehabilitation and reconstruction aftermath disaster.
Michiel Leijenaar studied Museology at the Reinwardt academy in Amsterdam. After a short period as an exhibition designer he made the switch to facility management in the cultural environment. He is specialized in organization chance en building projects. He has been working as Facility Manager at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam, as Facility manager at the Utrecht City Theatre and as advisor to the board of directors of the building society Ymere in Amsterdam. Since January 2007, Michiel is Head of Facilities Management & Security of the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis.
Marjan Otter studied Art History and Archaeology at the University of Groningen and Leiden. She initiated the promotion office of the Leiden Museums (Leiden Museumstad) and was responsible for the marketing in the Dutch Resistance Museum, the Tropenmuseum and the Scheepvaartmuseum, all in Amsterdam. She worked for several government institutions: the Ministry of Culture, the SICA (Center for International Cultural Activities) and the ICN (The Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage).
As a board member she supported/supports the following NGO’s: Thamy Mnyele Foundation (chair) ICOM-Netherlands (vice-chair and secretary) Blue Shield-Netherlands (secretary) and the Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield (vice president - secretary).
Mr. Leif Pareli, president of ICOM Norway, was chair of the international ANCBS working group and former president of BS Norway. He is a Social Anthropologist working as curator at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, mostly with Sami culture and various minority issues. Lately he has turned his attention to the many Sami living in the city, which is becoming an important aspect of contemporary Sami life.
Marja Peek, Consultant of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage, studied Art History and Information Science at the University of Leiden. She specialized in applied informatics for cultural heritage. Since 1989 she has worked at the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN), first as coordinator of the Art Historical Department and from 1996 as coordinator of the Information Department. ICN is part of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. From 2001 she has worked at the ICN as a consultant in the field of collection management in which risk management plays an important role. She also is coordinator of the Dutch Indemnity Scheme, in which museum security is an important issue.
Barbara Roberts was educated in England and trained at the London College of furniture and at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She has worked as a Conservator at the Victoria and Albert, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New, and was Head of Decorative Arts and Sculpture Conservation at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and Conservator, The Frick Collection, New York and now works in private practice. She is a member of long standing of ICOM and has been working with emergency and disaster management issues since the mid 1980's. She has trained trainers for the protection of cultural property in the United States of America and in Asia. She conducted an Expert Mission for ICOM/UNESCO to Croatia in 1993 to review war damage. She reviewed damage to cultural property after the Hyogoken-Nambu Earthquake in 1994 (Kobe) and in Mongolia in 1997. Ms. Roberts has been working with Cori Wegener and others to train Civil Affairs personnel, publish information that can be used by the military, volunteers or the general public to protect cultural property in emergency situations. She has worked to encourage the successful passage of ratification of the 1954 Hague Convention by the United States of America.
Thomas Shuler is a chairman of ICOM Disaster Relief for Museum Task Force.
Aparna Tandon, Project Specialist of ICCROM, has a Masters´ degree in Art Conservation from the National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology, New Delhi and has received her specialization in Paper Conservation from the Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University Art Museums. In 2001-2002 she was a Fulbright Fellow at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. where she researched on disaster risk management for cultural heritage collections. In 2003 she was the Conservation Guest Scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute, focusing on preventive conservation and risk preparedness strategies for museum and archive collections. From 1998 to 2004, she was Curator-Conservator at the Amar Mahal Museum and Library in Jammu in northern India. She has specialized in designing preventive conservation strategies for museum collections and in teaching, while also promoting awareness and public participation in preservation activities. She was the founder Convenor of a NGO, Preserve Art Treasure and Heritage (PATH) from 2003-2004, through which she organized a series of preventive conservation and awareness generation camps for the collections and sites in Jammu and Kashmir. Currently, as a Project Specialist in the Collections Unit of ICCROM, Aparna is in charge of developing its international programme on conservation of sound and image collections. She has also contributed to the development of Teamwork for Integrated Emergency Management, a regional training offered in the framework of Museums Emergency Programme (MEP).
Hasti Tarekat, started her involvement in heritage in 1993 as a volunteer for Bandung Heritage Society, Indonesia, and an internship with the National Trust of New South Wales, Sydney. In 1998 she established Sumatra Heritage Trust in Medan, North Sumatra, and later Pan-Sumatra Network for Heritage Conservation.
In 2003 she led a refurbishing of historical bridge project in Medan, Indonesia, which received the UNESCO Asia Pacific “Heritage Award for Merit”. In 2004 she initiated capacity building trainings for all members of the Pan-Sumatra Network in cooperation with Urban Solutions, Rotterdam. She also involved in activities of the modern Asia Architecture Network (mAAN) and the International Field School of Asian Heritage (IFSAH).
She studied social welfare for bachelor degree and regional planning for masters degree with a research about regulation of protected buildings. Currently, she resides in Amsterdam, the Netherlands as the representative of the Indonesia Heritage Trust in the Netherlands, consultant for heritage education pilot project of the Netherlands Institute for Heritage, associate of Urban Solutions and guest lecturer of international masters degree museology of the Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam.
René Teygeler started his academic career in 1970 with his study in Sociology at Utrecht University for which university he worked as an assistant researcher for several years. As he developed a taste for books he started studying bookbinding, which he was teaching at the Amsterdam School of Printing since 1988. In 1993 he finished his education as a book and paper conservator, a year after he was appointed as a conservator at the Royal Library.
His interests soon took him to preservation cultures outside Europe and that is one of the reasons he continued his academic training in Anthropology, for which he obtained an honorary degree in 1996. After a year at the Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania, Leiden University he started his consultancy firm Culture in Development and has since advised many heritage projects in the Netherlands and abroad. He has a keen interest in preservation issues in tropical countries and the many disasters they have to face. In 2004-2005 he spent 7 months in Iraq as the senior consultant for the Ministry of Culture and has hands-on experiences of what preservation in times of conflict means. René is an active member of many professional bodies and the author of over 30 publications.
Cori Wegener is an Associate Curator of Decorative Arts at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, where she has worked since 1999. She also served as a career Civil Affairs officer in the United States Army Reserve, retiring in 2004 with more than 21 years of service. Her last assignment was in Baghdad, Iraq as the Arts, Monuments, and Archives Officer for the 352nd Civil Affairs Command, where her duties included assisting the Iraq National Museum after the looting in April 2003 and acting as military liaison to the Iraqi Ministry of Culture. Wegener is founder and president of the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield, a non-profit organization committed to the protection of cultural property worldwide during armed conflict. She is also co-chair of the International Council of Museums’ Disaster Relief for Museums Task Force, and as a member of ICOM-US, received the 2007 ICOM-US International Service Citation for her work with cultural property in Iraq. Wegener received her undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and Masters of Art degrees in Political Science and Art History from the University of Kansas.
Carol Westrik is an Art Historian with an extensive knowledge of landscape conservation. She is furthermore specialised in the role of culture in post-conflict and post-disaster situations. Carol is currently the Programme Officer for Culture at the Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO. She holds a MA in History of Art (Amsterdam), a second MA in the Conservation of Historic Landscapes (York), and a PhD in Post-war Reconstruction and Development (York). She joined the National UNESCO Commission in 2003 where she is in charge of the projects relating to culture, like the implementation of the 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, projects relating to the fight against illegal trade in cultural heritage, the role of culture in post-conflict and post-disaster situations and the impact of climate change on cultural heritage. She also fulfilled the position of focal point for the Dutch input in the World Heritage Committee during the period of the Dutch membership from 2003 to 2007.
