Curatorial Director

Laurence des Cars (born in 1966) has been Curatorial Director of Agence France-Muséums since July 2007. She is a senior heritage curator.

A graduate of Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, the Ecole du Louvre, and the Ecole nationale du Patrimoine, she was a curator at the Musée d’Orsay from 1994 to 2007. A specialist in 19th century painting, she curated the following exhibitions and contributed to the catalogues accompanying them: L’Origine du monde, autour d’un chef d’œuvre de Courbet (Musée d’Orsay, 1996); Jean-Paul Laurens, Peintre d’histoire (Musée d’Orsay; Toulouse, Musée des Augustins, 1997-1998); Edward Burne-Jones (New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum, Musée d’Orsay, 1998 -1999); Courbet et la Commune (2000, Musée d’Orsay); Thomas Eakins, un réaliste américain (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Paris, Musée d’Orsay, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001-2002); Édouard Vuillard (Washington, National Gallery of Art, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, London, Royal Academy of Art, 2003-2004); Gustave Courbet (Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Montpellier, Musée Fabre, 2007-2008); Jean-Léon Gérôme (Los Angeles, Getty Museum; Paris, Musée d’Orsay; Madrid, Thyssen Museum, 2010-2011). Her publications include: Les Préraphaélites. Un modernisme à l’anglaise (Gallimard, 1999), Gérôme, de la peinture à l’image (Gallimard, 2010), L’art français. Le 19ème siècle (1819-1905) (Flammarion, 2006), under the direction of Henri Loyrette, President-Director of the Louvre, and in collaboration with Sébastien Allard, curator at the Louvre. She teaches regularly at the Ecole du Louvre. Laurence des Cars is a chevalier of the national Order of Merit.

General Secretary

Manuel Rabaté (born in 1976) joined Agence France-Muséums in September 2008 as Administrative and Financial Officer. He was appointed General Secretary of AFM in July 2010.

He is a graduate of the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (1998) and HEC (2001).
He was Deputy Director of the Auditorium du Louvre from 2002 to 2005. He joined the musée du quai Branly one year before its opening in 2006, as Deputy Director for Cultural Development and Visitors Policy. He remained focused on cultural production (especially on financial and administrative points) from 2005 to 2008, including the touring exhibitions in 2007 and 2008.
He is president of the association Culture & Management. Member of HEC Media, Art and Creation Master Orientation committee, he has been lecturing on cultural production management / project management in various universities and business schools (Université Paris-Dauphine, ESSEC, EDHEC, PSUAD...).

Director of Architectural and Technical Affairs

Jean-Valère Arifont (born in 1962) is an architect. He has been Director of Architectural and Technical Affairs in Agence France-Muséums since October 2007.
He received a multidisciplinary training and earned a BA in the philology and comparative study of Latin languages at Madrid University, followed by a diploma in architecture from the Marseille school of architecture.
From 1990 to 1997 he worked as an engineer with Serete in Monaco, in different building sectors including industry, health, tourism and culture. He also worked for several years as project manager for the Bodin & Partenaires firm of architects. From 2000 to 2004 he held the positions of building manager and safety manager at the Centre Pompidou before becoming heritage director at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (2004-2007).

Curatorial Director Deputy - Curator in charge of Decorative Arts

Olivier Gabet (born in 1976) is a heritage curator. He joined Agence France-Muséums in January 2008 as Curator in charge of Decorative Arts.
An archivist-palaeographer, he obtained a post-graduate degree (DEA) in art history from the Ecole pratique des hautes études. A graduate of the Ecole nationale des chartes (Paris), his thesis examined a family of Parisian cabinetmakers in the 19th century. After entering the Ecole nationale du Patrimoine (ENP), he did his training course in the Department of Objets d’Art of the Louvre. After graduating from ENP, he was appointed curator at the Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris (2002-2004), in charge of art objects and co-organiser of the exhibition Paris Moderne. Art Deco works from the Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris (Jackson and Miami, 2004). Working on historicism and eclecticism in the 19th century, he joined the musée d’Orsay in 2005 as curator for decorative arts 1850-1890 and organised a number of exhibitions: L’Objet et son double. Dessins d’arts décoratifs des collections du musée d’Orsay (2006) and Le décorateur et l’amateur d’art. Décors intérieurs (2008), and wrote the two catalogues accompanying them. He also contributed to the catalogue Un ensemble Art Nouveau. La donation Rispal. At the same time he managed Correspondances, the contemporary art programme of the musée d’Orsay, which hosted artists such as Brice Marden, Robert Mangold, Annette Messager, Joël Shapiro, Christian Boltanski, Jannis Kounellis and Pierre et Gilles. A former Focillon Fellow (2003) at Yale University, Olivier Gabet lectures at the Ecole du Louvre on outstanding French residences of the 19eme century in the department devoted to "Architecture, decoration and furniture of outstanding residences" (2003-2006).

Permanent Representative

Laurent Gillard (born in 1962) was appointed Permanent Representative of Agence France-Muséums in Abu Dhabi in July 2010.
After a period spent teaching in an American university, he has spent most of his career within the diplomatic network of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He has served in different French Embassies, notably in Ethiopia, India and Syria, as an Adviser on development aid and cultural action. He also worked as Asian Director for CampusFrance, the interministerial agency for the promotion of French higher education courses abroad.
In addition to his classic academic background, he holds several post-graduate qualifications and took courses at ENA, the national school of administration in Paris.

Visitor services and public programs officer

Jean-Michel Carré (born in 1972) joined Agence France-Muséums in September 2011 to take charge of its visitor management policy.

After graduating in history (Université du Maine, Le Mans) and in cultural mediation (Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers), he started his career in Paris in the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in 1996, in the commercial activities department. He then moved to the Musée d’Orsay and its cultural department in 1997 in charge of visitor development. In 2001, after studies at ESSEC business school in marketing and commercial development, he was appointed marketing manager in charge of visitor studies. He took an active part in setting up the new visitors department when the Musée d’Orsay changed its status in 2004, and until 2008 he was in charge of the visitor development department. In 2008, he joined the Foundation set up by the Aga Khan for the preservation and development of the Chantilly estate as Marketing Manager, where he was entrusted with the task of setting up a visitor observatory, coordination of the cultural and educational programme, and promotion of the Estate.

Communications Officer

Louma Salamé (born in 1981) joined Agence France-Muséums in March 2008 as Communications Officer.
She is a graduate of the Ecole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs and of the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. A winner of several scholarships, she went on an exchange assignment to the Central Saint Martin’s School in London in 2003. She worked as a junior policy officer of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin in 2006 in the Department of Islamic Arts and then at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2007, in the Curatorial and Special Events departments. After carrying out research for the Acquisitions Committee of the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain of Luxembourg (MUDAM 2007), she became the assistant of Marie-Claude Beaud, the director of MUDAM (2007 /2008).

Institutional relations Manager

Ugo Bertoni (born in 1982) joined Agence France-Muséums in September 2008 as Project Executive to the CEO.
He is a graduate of the Ecole normale supérieure and the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and holds diplomas in philosophy, public law and political science. He recently collaborated on setting up the Shere Hite Collection for the Schlesinger Library of Harvard University. Between September 2006 and August 2007, he held the positions of researcher and rapporteur with the Haut Conseil de l’éducation artistique et culturelle [High Council for Arts and Cultural Education] presided over by the Ministers of Education and Culture. In 2005, he worked as a representative on the team led by Iris Broch in preparation for the international Venice Art Biennale.

Curatorial Director

Laurence des Cars (born in 1966) has been Curatorial Director of Agence France-Muséums since July 2007. She is a senior heritage curator.

A graduate of Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, the Ecole du Louvre, and the Ecole nationale du Patrimoine, she was a curator at the Musée d’Orsay from 1994 to 2007. A specialist in 19th century painting, she curated the following exhibitions and contributed to the catalogues accompanying them: L’Origine du monde, autour d’un chef d’œuvre de Courbet (Musée d’Orsay, 1996); Jean-Paul Laurens, Peintre d’histoire (Musée d’Orsay; Toulouse, Musée des Augustins, 1997-1998); Edward Burne-Jones (New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum, Musée d’Orsay, 1998 -1999); Courbet et la Commune (2000, Musée d’Orsay); Thomas Eakins, un réaliste américain (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Paris, Musée d’Orsay, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001-2002); Édouard Vuillard (Washington, National Gallery of Art, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, London, Royal Academy of Art, 2003-2004); Gustave Courbet (Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Montpellier, Musée Fabre, 2007-2008); Jean-Léon Gérôme (Los Angeles, Getty Museum; Paris, Musée d’Orsay; Madrid, Thyssen Museum, 2010-2011). Her publications include: Les Préraphaélites. Un modernisme à l’anglaise (Gallimard, 1999), Gérôme, de la peinture à l’image (Gallimard, 2010), L’art français. Le 19ème siècle (1819-1905) (Flammarion, 2006), under the direction of Henri Loyrette, President-Director of the Louvre, and in collaboration with Sébastien Allard, curator at the Louvre. She teaches regularly at the Ecole du Louvre. Laurence des Cars is a chevalier of the national Order of Merit.

Curator in charge of Archaeology

Jean-François Charnier (born in 1969) is a heritage curator. He joined Agence France-Muséums in January 2008 as Curator in charge of Archaeology.
After studying pre- and protohistoric archaeology at the Ecole du Louvre, followed by studies in ethnoarchaeology at Université de Paris X-Nanterre, he entered the Ecole nationale du patrimoine, graduating in 1994. After leaving the ENP, he was put in charge of the activities linked to preventive archaeology in the Pays de la Loire region, where he developed research programmes and directed archaeological excavations in prehistoric archaeology. In 2000 he joined the Musée national des Arts and Traditions populaires (MNATP) where he took over the Department of Agriculture, Hunting and Fishing in order to adapt it to the museographic project of the Museum of the Civilisations of Europe and the Mediterranean (MUCEM). As part of this project, he organised collective research programmes around the Mediterranean and several exhibitions. In 2006 he took up the position of policy director for archaeological repositories and relations with the Direction des Musées de France (DMF) at the Direction de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (DAPA). In this context, he designed and implemented the project for networking the study and conservation centres in order to find a solution for managing archaeological objects and their relation to museums throughout France. Jean-François Charnier has published numerous articles in the field of European archaeology and Mediterranean ethnology and produced several documentary films on ethnographic themes. He lectures on general ethnology and runs seminars in preparation for the Curator examination at the Ecole du Louvre.

Curator in charge of Asian Arts

Vincent Lefèvre

Curator in charge of Asian arts
Vincent Lefèvre (born in 1974) is a cultural heritage curator. He joined Agence France-Muséums in May 2008 to take in charge of Asian arts.
A graduate of the Ecole des Chartes and the Ecole Nationale du Patrimoine, he is an archivist-palaeographer, with a doctorate in Indian Studies and qualified to direct research (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III). He worked as a curator for the Musée Cernuschi, Musée des Arts de l’Asie de la Ville de Paris (2000-2002), and then at the Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet (2002-2008), in charge of the textile collections, where he supervised the entry into the museum of the Krishnâ Riboud collection from AEDTA (Association for the Study and Documentation of Asian Textiles). He also curated several exhibitions, notably on the Riboud collection and on Bangladesh.

Within the Agency, his field of scientific competence covers Asia but he is also in charge of training projects for the Louvre Abu Dhabi. He likewise teaches at the Ecole du Louvre (MA), the Institut national du Patrimoine and the Sorbonne Abu Dhabi and is a research director (MA and PhD) at Université Paris-III. His research covers the context (social and ideological) of artistic creation in India and countries influenced by India and normative literature (religious and artistic) in Sanskrit. As well as thirty articles, he has published several books, notably: Commanditaires et artistes en Inde du sud. Des Pallava aux Nayak (2006), Chefs-d’œuvre du delta du Gange. Collections des musées du Bangladesh (co-edited with M.-F. Boussac, 2007), Portraiture in Early India. Between Transcience and Eternity (2011), as well as the 3 volumes of the critical edition of a Sanskrit treatise on ritual, the Diptagama (in collaboration with B. Dagens and M.-L. Barazer-Billoret, 2004-2009). He is currently president of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art.

Head Registrar

Hélène Vassal (born in 1966) joined Agence France-Muséums in October 2008 to take charge of the registration of artworks. Since 2010 she has also been director of the collections and operations department.
A graduate in political science (1990), the management of cultural institutions (1993) and preventive conservation (1998), she entered the Ministry of Culture in 1989 and set up the artworks registration department for the Fonds national d’Art contemporain which she ran until 1998. In 1999 she joined the team of the Musée Guimet during its renovation as registrar of its collections (1999-2003) and then as head of the museography department (2004-2006). In 2006 she participated in the opening of the Musée du quai Branly and set up the collection management and preventive conservation section within the Heritage and Collections department. She also founded AFROA, the French association of art registrars (1997) and takes a very active part in setting up training courses in this field. In 2006 the Ecole du Louvre entrusted her with the courses leading to its MA 2 in Heritage Studies. An active member of ICOM since 1998, she was elected to its French committee from 2004 to 2010; since 2010 she has been a member of the management committee of ICTOP, the international committee of ICOM for the training of museum personnel. Hélène Vassal is a chevalier in the order of Arts and Letters.

Exhibitions Representative

Catherine Gimonnet (born in 1978) joined Agence France-Muséums in October 2008 as Exhibitions Representative.
A specialist in comparative law and cultural heritage law, she has qualifications in law and political science, comparative law and art history. In 2003 she passed the entrance examination for the barristers’ training school (EFB, Ecole de Formation du Barreau) in Paris. In 2004 she was recruited for the legal affairs department of the state-run musée Guimet. In 2007 she was appointed head of the department in charge of the museum’s international action and publications where her tasks include the coordination of projects for the production and touring of exhibitions of the musée Guimet abroad.

Acquisitions Representative

Matthieu Thenoz (born in 1975) joined Agence France-Muséums in April 2008 as Acquisitions Representative.
He has a law degree (Université Jean Moulin-Lyon III) and a degree in art history (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne). He occupied different positions in the film industry until 2005 when he began professional post-graduate studies devoted to the management of cultural projects. After taking on temporary assignments in a corporate foundation, and then with the Mission des métiers d’art [Art Crafts Mission] of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, he joined the staff of the musée d’Orsay in charge of the storage and verification of works. He then became responsible for questions relating to the museum’s acquisition of works of art.

Curatorial assistant in Asian Arts

Guilhem André (born in 1973) joined Agence France-Muséums in September 2008 as Curatorial assistant in Asian Arts.
Holder of a doctorate in archaeology from Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, Guilhem André is also an art historian and graduate of the Ecole du Louvre. After obtaining a diploma from INALCO, and then a scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (1999-2001), he studied in China at the faculties of archaeology and art history at Sichuan University and then Beijing University. In 2001 he joined the China Department of the musée des Arts asiatiques-Guimet as assistant and member of the French archaeological mission in Mongolia, for which he has worked as scientific secretary since 2002. In parallel, starting in 1999, he contributed to the organisation of international exhibitions initiated by the musée Guimet. He thus participated in the organisation of fifteen events in France and abroad: musée Olympique-Lausanne (1999), Forbidden City-Beijing (1999), Grimaldi Forum-Monaco (2001), Fundacio La Caixa-Barcelona (2001), Fundacaõ Armando Alvares Penteado-Saõ Paolo (2002), Fine Arts Museum of Ulan Bator (2003), and the museums of Poitou-Charentes - The France-China Years (2004). His research has led him to publish two books and twenty scientific articles and essays for catalogues.

Curatorial Assistant in Islamic arts

Nourane Ben Azzouna (born in 1980) joined Agence France Museums in October 2009 as a Curatorial assistant in Islamic arts.

Holder of a doctorate in history of the book and codicology from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, Nourane Ben Azzouna is also an art historian, graduate of the Université de Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne (DEA, postgraduate diploma) and the Ecole du Louvre and a former student at INALCO and the International Institute of Persian Studies of the University of Teheran. She has undertaken several study trips to Iran and Turkey and has carried out research in important European collections thanks to scholarships from the French research institutes in Teheran and Istanbul (IFRI, IFEA) and from several foundations (Barakat (Oxford), Iran Heritage Foundation (London), Max Van Berchem Foundation (Geneva) and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research of Tunisia). In parallel, she worked as lecturer at the Université de Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, as well as scientific collaborator in the department of Islamic arts of the Louvre. Since October 2007, she also has been an associate researcher in the department of Manuscripts of the Bibliothèque Nationale. Her work focuses principally on the history of calligraphy and the history of the techniques and arts of the book in the Arabic, Persian and Turkish cultures.

Curatorial assistant in Archaeology

Adrien Berthelot (born in 1982) joined Agence France-Muséums in August 2008 as a researcher in archaeology.

After graduating from Université Rennes II, he obtained a pre-PhD diploma from Université Paris I on the relations between the technique and iconography of Iranian stoneware in the Bronze Age. He has taken part in several archaeological missions in Turkmenistan, Iran, Mongolia and especially the United Arab Emirates where since 2005 he has been an associate member of the French Archaeological Mission to the UAE (CNRS, mixed research unit 7041). With this team he has worked on the Bronze Age sites of Hili oasis (Al Aïn), the Neolithic sanctuary in Akab (Umm al Qawain) and, since 2009, has participated in a study of the coastal occupation sites of the northern Emirates of the federation. As well these archaeological activities, he studies the collections of stone vases from the different sites. Principally interested in the manufacturing techniques and forms, he is preparing several publications on the production of these vases in the Gulf and in central Asia during the 3rd millennium BC.

Curatorial assistant in Modern and Contemporary Art

Anne Coron

Curatorial assistant in Modern and Contemporary Art

Holder of a doctorate in contemporary art history on the cut-out gouaches of Henri Matisse (2005), she has published several exhibition catalogues: the forthcoming Henri Matisse. Paires/Impaires (Paris, New York, Copenhagen 2012); Henri Matisse, dessins au pinceau (Le Cateau-Cambrésis 2011); Matisse: Drawing life (Queensland, Australia 2011); Gustave Moreau l’homme aux figures de cire (Paris 2010); La Donation Alice Tériade au musée Matisse Le Cateau-Cambrésis (2008); Matisse-Rouault (Japan 2008), Matisse une seconde vie (Paris, Copenhagen, 2005), Picasso et la tradition française (Tokyo, 2003); in journals such as Histoire de l’Art (2007) and in other studies such as La Collection d’arts graphiques du Centre G. Pompidou (2009). She has also taught 19th and 20th century art at the Ecole du Louvre (additional course 2000-2003) and at Université Picardie Jules Vernes (2008). She carried out an inventory check of the works on deposit at the Musée national de Céramique (Sèvres) and at the Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet. She was then put in charge of the documentation at the Musée Gustave Moreau (2000-2008) where she also drew up the inventory of the collection of documents assembled by Gustave Moreau (drawings, prints, photographs).

Curatorial assistant for Decorative Arts

Sylphide de Sonis-Daranyi (born in 1971) joined Agence France-Muséums in November 2007 as Curatorial assistant for Decorative Arts.
She holds an MA in history after studying under Jean Tulard and a post-graduate (DEA) diploma in art history from Université Paris IV-Sorbonne under the direction of Guillaume Schnapper and Daniel Alcouffe. She worked for five years in the Department of Objets d’Art of the musée du Louvre, where she carried out numerous research projects. The latter covered the history of French furniture, the history of taste and decoration in the modern period and the collections of the department and led to contributions to catalogues of exhibitions such as Les Gemmes de la Couronne (Louvre, 2001), Madame de Pompadour et les arts (Versailles, 2002) and Les Arts décoratifs au temps de Louis XIII (Grand Palais, 2002). Her personal research covers a French cabinetmaker of the 18th century, Jacques Philippe Carel. She has also published articles in l’Estampille-L’Objet d’art and the Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art français. For five years she held the position of public and press relations officer for temporary exhibitions at the musée du Louvre.

Curatorial assistant in Paintings, Sculptures and Graphic Arts for the classical period

Jerôme Delaplanche (born in 1974), joined Agence France-Muséums in January 2008 as Curatorial assistant in Paintings, Sculptures and Graphic Arts for the classical period (16th to 18th centuries). Jerome Delaplanche also works for the Agency on the mediation project.
A former scholarship holder at the Académie de France in Rome (Villa Médicis), he is a graduate of the Ecole du Louvre and holds a PhD in art history (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne). In 2004, his monograph on Noël-Nicolas Coypel is published (Arthena). His doctoral studies under the direction of Professor Alain Merot were devoted to Joseph Parrocel and his thesis was published, also by Arthena, in 2006. He then specialised in the study of paintings of battles and wrote several articles (which appeared in Histoire de l’art, Bollettino d’Arte, etc.) and the book Peindre la guerre (2009). He organised several exhibitions (musée du Louvre, Epinal, Saint Cloud). He joined INHA [National Institute of History of Art ] as a researcher in 2007 and participate in the study dedicated to the drawings collection of musée de Grenoble. Apart from his research activity, he has taught art history since 2000 in different institutions (Ecole du Louvre, Université Aix-Marseille I, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, Institut catholique).

Curatorial assistant in the Medieval Art

Elodie Jeannest (born in 1980) joined Agence France-Muséums in March 2008 as a researcher in the arts of the Middle Ages. She also participates in monitoring the management of the collection by organising restoration and preventive conservation operations, and the registration of artworks. In addition, she is in charge of the project for the production of multimedia tools dedicated to architecture for the future permanent collection.
She is a graduate in medieval history and the history of art (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne). After working with the planning team preparing the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, she joined the conservation department of the Musée des Monuments Français to work on the implementation of its new scientific project from 2002 until it reopened to the public in September 2007. In particular, she took charge of drawing up the catalogue raisonné of the museum’s collection of wall paintings (2002-2005), before participating in the museographic management of the casts gallery and the reinstallation of works (2006-2008). Since autumn 2010 she has been preparing her doctoral thesis in Heritage History at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes under the direction of Jean-Michel Leniaud, entitled The Department of Historical Monuments and its collection of records of medieval wall paintings since 1840. She has published a number of articles, notably in the Bulletin monumental of the Société française d’Archeologie (t.162-2) in 2011. She has also participated actively in setting up events showcasing medieval heritage sites listed as Historical Monuments in France (notably the Carluc priory, near Avignon) by organising exhibitions and lectures and writing scientific articles.

Director of Architectural and Technical Affairs

Jean-Valère Arifont (born in 1963) is an architect. He has been Director of Architectural and Technical Affairs in Agence France-Muséums since October 2007.
He received a multidisciplinary training and earned a BA in the philology and comparative study of Latin languages at Madrid University, followed by a diploma in architecture from the Marseille school of architecture.
From 1990 to 1997 he worked as an engineer with Serete in Monaco. He also worked for several years as project manager for the Bodin & Partenaires firm of architects in different building sectors including industry, health, tourism and culture. From 2000 to 2004 he held the positions of building manager and safety manager at the Centre Pompidou before becoming heritage director at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (2004-2007).

Visitor services and public programs officer

Education Project Representative

Paule Mourani (born in 1965) joined the Agency in February 2010 as Education Officer. She obtained an MA in the Management of Cultural Organisations from Université Paris-Dauphine after studying at INALCO, graduating from IESA and obtaining an MA in the History of the Contemporary Arab World from Université Paris IV-Sorbonne. She has had several years of experience in the organisation of cultural events in Lebanon and worked for 8 years in the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris in different posts involving educational action and cultural mediation

Legal Manager

Marina Brige (born in 1979) joined Agence France-Muséums in November 2008 as Legal and Administrative Manager.
She obtained a post-graduate diploma (DESS) in copyright and communication law from Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV (2002) and a diploma in the law and fiscality of the art market from Université Jean Moulin-Lyon III (2003). Between 2003 and 2006 she worked with Christie’s France on legal affairs and customer relationship management (CRM). From 2007 to 2008 she served as a consultant in a consultancy firm, and was notably involved in the "competitive dialogue" initiated by the Paris National Opera. She is a member of the association Art & Droit [Art & Law] and participates in work on information technology and digital creations at the Research Centre of Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV university. She has published different articles on the law of cultural property in legal and scientific journals.

Administration and finance Manager

Axelle Moleur (born in 1979) is in charge of quality assurance and joined the Agence France-Muséums in May 2009.
She holds a D.E.A. in Hispanic and Latin American Studies from the Université de Paris III-Sorbonne nouvelle (2002) and graduated from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (2004). Between 2005 and 2009, she worked at the Production department of the Centre Pompidou as a registrar of artwork for temporary exhibits. She was then responsible for financial and administrative affairs for the Head of the Registration department and later the Head of the Events department. Responsible for quality assurance in both departments, she contributed to the creation of a system of quality certification that allowed the coordination of exhibits, the management of artwork mobility and technical capacity to obtain an ISO 9001 (2000 version) certification in November 2008.

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