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
Dr. Edgar Tijhuis – Academic Director, PG Certification Programme
Dr. Crispin Corrado – Assistant Academic Director, PG Certification Programme
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, ARCA Criminology Advisor
Alice Bientinesi – Academic Programmes and Events Coordinator
Morgan Belzic – Forensic Antiquities Analyst
Ibrahim Bulut – Museum Security and Risk Analyst
Noah Charney – Founding Director, ARCA; Journal of Art Crime, Editor-in-Chief
Urška Charney – Designer and Distribution Director, Journal of Art Crime
Monica Di Stefano – Social Director, Italy Programming
Roos Hoek – Provenance Researcher
Marcel Marée – Egyptologist and Egyptian Antiquities Analyst
Marc Masurovsky – Historian of economic plunder and provenance research expert
Dorit Straus – Independent Insurance Consultant, (Ret) Vice President and Worldwide Specialty Fine Art Manager for Chubb & Son, a division of Federal Insurance Company – NYC, New York
Board of Trustees
Dennis Ahearn – Private Security Consultant
Lynda Albertson (ex officio) – ARCA Chief Executive Officer
Marc Balcells – Professor, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Professor, Associate, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Noah Charney – ARCA Founder and President
Richard Ellis – Director, Art Management Group and former Head Art and Antiques Squad Metropolitan Police, New Scotland Yard (retired)
General B(a) CC Giovanni Pastore – Vice-Commandant for the Comando Carabinieri per la Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale (Retired)
Edgar Tijhuis – Subject Matter Expert and Independent Researcher, Visiting Scholar, Inštitut za kriminologijo pri Pravni fakulteti v Ljubljani
Judge Arthur Tompkins – Forensic Expert, District Court Judge, New Zealand Ministry of Justice
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
Morgan Belzic – French historian, archaeologist, and illicit tracking researcher of the École Pratique des Hautes Études
Duncan Chappell – 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)
Crispin Corrado – Professor of Classical Archaeology, ARCA Academic Director 2013 – 2017, ARCA Academic Advisor 2017 to Present
Ibrahim Bulut – ARCA Lecturer, Museum Security Expert, Security Consultant and Trainer, Crisis Management, Intelligence Analysis, ISO 31000
Maurizio Fiorilli – Emeritus, Vice Avvocato Generale dello Stato
Patty Gerstenblith – ARCA Lecturer (2022-2023), Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University
Saskia Hufnagel – ARCA Lecturer, University of Sydney Law School
Fabio Isman – Investigative Reporter and Journalist covering Antiquities and Cultural Heritage Protection
Matjaž Jager – Director, Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law
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 – Associate Professor, Università di Bologna
Fabrizio Rossi – ARCA Guest Lecturer, Luogotenente (Ret) Italian Comando Carabinieri per la Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale – Rome, Italy
Laurie Rush – ARCA Guest Lecturer, 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