Chair

Darius Sanai is owner of LUX Global Media and Editor in Chief of LUX magazine, which is global partner of Deutsche Bank x Frieze Art Fair. He is an Editor in Chief at Condé Nast International. He launched Vogue Hong Kong in 2019 and has launched and edited more than 25 magazines for Condé Nast over the past 15 years. He is a partner in Quartet Consulting, which advises UHNWIs and corporations. He is chair of the judges and founder of the Louis Roederer Art Prize for Sustainability and owns the Oxford Review of Books and the Oxford Review of Books Art Prize.

Darius launched Baku magazine for the government of Azerjbaijan and K magazine for the government of Kazakhstan. He is a regular speaker at Financial Times and wealth management conferences and sits on the board of several media and luxury companies. A former newspaper foreign correspondent and BBC World TV presenter, Darius read PPE at Oxford University (where he launched his first magazine), speaks five languages and collects fine wine, modern classic cars, contemporary art and punk memorabilia.

Treasurer

Andrey is a Brazilian public relations specialist and US Director of jeweler Silvia Furmanovich, based in New York. Born in São Paulo, Andrey moved to New York in 2006 and received a Bachelor's Degree in Design Management from Parsons The New School of Design. 

After graduating, Andrey honed his skills in media relations and strategic communications at Nadine Johnson & Associates. He also established an international presence for Silvia Furmanovich, the family-run business founded on a fascination with craftsmanship, a love of natural materials and meticulous attention to detail. 

Andrey is also the founder of Andrey & Melissa LLC, a public relations practice known for its unparalleled level of attention given to well-rounded client roster. While A&M has roots in the design industry, they now have a robust directory of projects located around the globe across diverse fields such as art, architecture, business, entertainment, fashion and jewelry. Clients include The Noguchi Museum, The Hispanic Society, The Miami Design District, Salon Art + Design, ABASK and several others.

Pooja Sood is a founding member and Director of Khoj International Artists’ Association, a not-for-profit society committed to experimentation and exchange in the visual arts in India. Under her stewardship, Khoj has grown from an annual event in 1997 to a small but vibrant building-based institution which plays a central role in the development of experimental, interdisciplinary and critical contemporary art practice in India and South Asia.

As Director of Khoj, she has worked actively to build a robust network of experimental spaces across south Asia resulting in the South Asian Network for the Arts ( SANA). Pooja Sood’s contribution has been in the field of curating alternative contemporary art practices in India as well as exploring different models of collaboration and institution building in India and South Asia. She has also led the ARThink South Asia (ATSA) arts management, policy and research programme for over a decade. The ATSA programme supports cadre of arts managers committed to the cause of capacity building ion the South Asian region. 

Madeleine Haddon is Curator of V&A East, the newest campus of the Victoria & Albert Museum, opening in 2025. Prior to joining the V&A, Dr. Haddon was an independent curator working between London and New York. She recently curated Nuestra Casa: Rediscovering the Treasures of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library at the Hispanic Society in New York and previously worked on Matisse: The Red Studio at The Museum of Modern Art.

Dr. Haddon serves on advisory committees for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums, Athena Art Foundation, Jaipur Art Week, and on the Steering Committee for The National Gallery’s Young Ambassadors. She has recently contributed essays to the exhibition catalogues Murillo: From Heaven to Earth (2022) at the Kimbell Art Museum and Travel, Respond, Assemble: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Betye Saar (2023) at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Previously, Dr. Haddon was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. 

Judith Greer is Director of International Programmes for Sharjah Art Foundation. Greer previously worked as International Director at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Co-author of Owning Art: The Contemporary Art Collector’s Handbook (2006), she lectures internationally on the topics of collecting, arts patronage and the Middle East art and cultural world. A long- serving trustee of Artangel, UK, she was a juror for the 2007 Max Mara Prize for Women Artists and in 2009 was on the jury for the Dubai-based Sheikha Manal Foundation Prize for young Emirati artists.

Jai Danani graduated with an Art History degree from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA. Returning to India he set-up India’s first art infrastructure firm called The Art Vault in 2007. Through this business he has played an active role in growing the Indian Modern and Contemporary Art landscape in India and abroad. 

Eight years ago he further expanded his practice and started Jai Danani Interior Design one of India’s leading design studios concentrating on high-end residential projects with an art focus. Though projects have been executed all around the world his signature style of having Indian Art is clearly visible. Recently being included in the Architectural Design India’s 100 most influential designers. 

Through his Art Consulting practice, he has been able to shape some of the most interesting and dynamic collections today. Danani continues to support and promote Indian art by being on the Tate Museum South Asian Acquisition Committee among other institutions. He is also an active member for FICA - the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art.

The work of London-based artist Rana Begum distils spatial and visual experience into ordered form. Through her refined language of Minimalist abstraction, Begum blurs the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture. Her visual language draws from the urban landscape as well as geometric patterns from traditional Islamic art and architecture. Light is fundamental to her process. Begum’s works absorb and reflect varied densities of light to produce an experience for the viewer that is both temporal and sensorial.

Born in Bangladesh in 1977, Rana Begum lives and works in London. In 1999, Begum graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design and, in 2002, gained an MFA in Painting from Slade School of Fine Art. 

Cora Sheibani is a Swiss jeweller living and working in London. As the daughter of art-dealer and collectors Bruno & Yoyo Bischofberger, she was raised in an environment dedicated to modern and contemporary art from an early age and received a Art History degree from New York University in 2001. After graduating she married and moved to London, got a gemmology degree and set up my epitums jewellery business. She decided to stick with her heritage and produce her jewellery mainly in Switzerland as well as other neighbouring countries. Supporting local craftspeople so that skills do not get lost or forgotten has always been important to her.

Yulia Dultsina is a prominent public art producer and cultural curator who spearheads art projects around the world.  She has facilitated partnerships with local governments, art institutions and social organizations while developing unique, site-specific educational programs in each location. While serving as the Executive Director of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s Ship of Tolerance, a global public art initiative awarded the Cartier Art Masters Prize, she brought the project to Havana, New York City, Miami, Moscow, Zug and Rome. More than 20,000 children have participated in the project under her guidance.

Additionally, Yulia co-curated Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Do It exhibition in New York City public high schools, collaborating with Independent Curators International (ICI) and Studio in a School.

 Yulia holds a Master’s degree in Foreign Affairs from Columbia University, where she attended on a full scholarship. Her early career included producing award-winning programming for CBS News and CNN, including contributions to 60 Minutes and the documentary Rehearsing Doomsday.

 In 2001, Yulia became Executive Director of the Foundation for Civil Liberties, where she managed over $25 million in human rights grants and produced the film Disbelief, which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. She also organized the Chechnya Film Festival in collaboration with Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Fluent in Russian and English and conversational in Mandarin, Yulia serves on the Emerging Art Committee at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and on the Board of Governors at Otis College of Art and Design.  

Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist and independent curator. His collections of poetry include Central Time (2014), Jonahwhale (2018), Hunchprose (2021), and Icelight (2023). Hoskote has been a fellow of the International Writing Program, University of Iowa; associate fellow of Sarai-CSDS at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi; writer-in-residence at Villa Waldberta, Munich, and the Polish Institute, Berlin; and researcher-in-residence at BAK/ basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.

Hoskote curated India’s first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011) and was co-curator, with Okwui Enwezor and Hyunjin Kim, of the 7th Gwangju Biennale. Hoskote has served on the Jury of the Venice Biennale (2015)and is a founding member of the Advisory Board of the Bergen Assembly, Norway.