Speaker Profile | The Opening Ceremony of the Second Dialogue of the China-Europe-America Museums Cooperation Initiative
Date：2022-05-12
The Second Dialogue of the China-Europe-America Museums Cooperation Initiative will be launched on May 19. Moderated by David Gosset, founder of the China-Europe-America Global Initiative, the opening ceremony of the event will gather high-level personalities from China International Communications Group, the Antiquities Coalition, the Palace Museum, UNESCO, Intesa Sanpaolo, and the Smithsonian Institution, to discuss the role of museums in the protection of our cultural heritage.
Speaker Profile
David Gosset
David Gosset, founder of the China-Europe-America Global Initiative, is a global affairs and international relations expert. He has received an honorary distinction by the King of Spain, the President of Italy, and the highest honor of hisown country France, the Légion d'Honneur. He is the author of Limited Views on the Chinese Renaissance and the editor of the triptych China and the World.
Gao Anming
Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration, former Deputy Editor-in-Chief of China Daily.
Deborah Lehr
Deborah Lehr is an accomplished global business strategist who has supported leading global firms and organizations to grow their presence in the world’s most complex markets. Deborah has applied her business acumen and policy knowledge to launch the Antiquities Coalition, which works with governments across the world to fight against antiquities trafficking and its use in funding terrorism and organized crime. She is on the Board of the World Monuments Fund, the Middle East Institute, the International Advisory Board of the London School of Economics, and the Sesame Workshop Global Advisory Board. Deborah is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. UNESCO has nominated Deborah as one of its inaugural list of accomplished global women. She also received the prestigious Hadrian Award from the World Monument Fund for her work in fighting the illicit trade in antiquities.
Shan Jixiang
Shan Jixiang is a curator, senior architect, and registered city planner. As a student of China’s renowned academician, Professor Wu Liangyong, Dr. Shan graduated from the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University and received the Eng. D degree. He is currently President of the China Cultural Relics Academy, a research fellow of China’s Counsellors’ Office of the State Council, and Director of the Academic Committee of the Palace Museum. He also served as Director of Beijing Municipal Cultural Heritage Bureau, Party Secretary of Fangshan District, Director of Beijing Municipal Planning Commission, Director of National Cultural Heritage Administration, and Director of the Palace Museum. He was a member of the 10th, 11th, and 12th National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Irina Bokova
Irina Bokova has been two terms the Director-General of UNESCO from 2009 to 2017. She is both the first female and the first Southeastern European to head the agency. Having graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Irina Bokova was a Fellow at the University of Maryland, Washington, and followed an executive program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. At UNESCO, Bokova advocated for gender equality, improved education and preventing funding for terrorism, especially by enforcing the protection of intellectual goods.
Gian Maria Gros-Pietro
Gian Maria Gros-Pietro is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Intesa Sanpaolo since April 2016. He currently serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Banking Association and a Director of Abi Servizi. He chairs the Committee of Market Operators and Investors at Consob and is a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of Borsa Italiana. At Luiss University, where he currently sits as a member of the Board of Directors, he served as Head of the Department of Economics and Business from 2004 to 2011. Previously, he was Full Professor of Business Economics.
Richard Kurin
Dr. Richard Kurin is the Smithsonian Distinguished Scholar and Ambassador-at-Large. As a member of the Smithsonian’s senior leadership team, Kurin focuses on strategic direction, institutional partnerships, public representation, philanthropic support and special initiatives. Kurin served on the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and helped draft an international treaty, now ratified by 170 nations, to safeguard living cultural heritage. He led efforts to save heritage in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake and has overseen projects for saving heritage endangered by natural disaster in Nepal and the U.S., and by human conflict in Mali, Egypt, Iraq and Syria. Kurin serves as Smithsonian liaison to the U.S. President’s Committee for the Arts and the Humanities and the White House Historical Association, and is a member of the U.S. Department of State Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee. An anthropologist with a doctorate from the University of Chicago, Kurin specialized in the study of South Asia, conducting years of fieldwork in India and Pakistan. He has held Fulbright and Social Science Research Council fellowships, taught at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and authored six books. He has been honored by Harvard University’s Peabody Museum, the International Council of Museums, the American Anthropological Association, the American Folklore Society and the Cosmos Club. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences.
This event is co-organized by the China-Europe-America Global Initiative, the Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies, and the Antiquities Coalition, with strategic partners including Yi Tsai and East Langkun, and media partner Tencent Video.
