Committees

Honorary Patron
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai
 
 
Art Dubai is grateful for the support of its patrons and friends, who have made extraordinary commitments to the contemporary arts scene in the Middle East and beyond.
  
 
HONORARY BOARD OF PATRONS
 

• Chairman: His Excellency Abdul Rahman bin Mohammed Al Owais, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development
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• Saeb Eigner
• patron, author (Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran (Merrell, 2010)); Founder/Chairman, Lonworld; Governor, London Business School; Chairman, Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA); London
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• HE Omar Ghobash 
• patron; Co-Founder, The Third Line Gallery; ex-Deputy CEO, Emirates Foundation; Founding Donor/Board Member, Arab Fund for Arts & Culture (AFAC); Board Member, Khatt Foundation; Sponsor, Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize; UAE Ambassador to Russia and Ukraine; Moscow
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• HRH Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
• patron; President, Dubai Women Establishment (DWE); wife of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs, UAE; Abu Dhabi/Dubai
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• Arif Naqvi 
• patron, collector; Founder/CEO, Abraaj Capital; Board of Directors, Endeavor; Board of Trustees, Aman Foundation; Member, Young Presidents' Organization / WEF Arab Business Council / EMPEA Advisory Council / IMD Foundation Board; Board Member, Pakistan Human Development Fund (PHDF) / King Abdullah II Award for Youth Innovation & Achievement / Dubai Government Education Endowment Fund / United Nations Global Compact; Dubai
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• HE Zaki Nusseibeh 
• Cultural Advisor, UAE Ministry of Presidential Affairs; Deputy Chairman, Abu Dhabi Culture and Heritage Authority (ADACH); Advisory Board, Middle East Centre London School of Economics / SOAS; Board Member, Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi / National Center for Documentation & Research / Emirates National School; President, Alliance Francaise Abu Dhabi / Abu Dhabi Classical Concert Committee / UAE chapter of the International 'Friends of Richard Wagner' society; Co-Founder, Abu Dhabi Classics Programme / Al Ain Music Festival; Abu Dhabi
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• HE Sheikh Hassan bin Mohammed bin Ali Al Thani
• patron, collector; Vice-Chairman, Qatar Museums Authority; Founder, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art; Doha

 
 
BOARD OF PATRONS
 

• Mohammed Afkhami 
• collector; Director, UBS Warburg; Managing Partner, MA Partners DMCC; Founding Member, British Museum’s Middle East and North Africa Art Acquisition Committee; Dubai
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• Yasmin Teymour Alireza 
• patron, collector; London
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• Faiza Meyassar Alireza
• patron, collector; Chairman, Al Madad Foundation; London
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• Paula Al Askari 
• patron, collector; Abu Dhabi
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• Kito De Boer 
• collector; Director – Middle East, McKinsey & Company; Dubai
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• Dr Farhad Farjam 
  patron; Founder, The Farjam Collection; Chairman/CEO, Farbro Group; Founder/Chairman, Hafiz Foundation; Dubai
   
• Lisa Farjam 
• editor, author; Founder/Editor-in-Chief, Bidoun Magazine; New York
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• Dr Shayma Nawaf Fawwaz
• collector; Vice President – Healthcare, Mubadala Development Company; Abu Dhabi
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• Fatima Al-Mazrui Ghobash
  patron, collector; Co-founder of S*uce; Dubai
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• Muna Al Gurg 
• patron, columnist; Director – Retail, Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group (ESAG); Chairwoman, Young Arab Leaders; Board of Directors, Easa Saleh Al Gurg Charity Foundation; Dubai
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• Dr Lamees Hamdan 
• collector; Commissioner, UAE Pavilion, Venice Biennale; Board Member, Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (DCAA) / Dubai Women Establishment (DWE); Fund Curator, Daman Middle East Art Fund; Founder, Shiffa; Dubai
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• Princess Wijdan Al Hashemi 
• patron; Founder/Director, Royal Society of Fine Arts of Jordan / Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts; former Jordan Ambassador to Italy; Amman
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• Dr Serra Kirdar
• patron, collector; Director, Muthabara Foundation; Founding Member, New Leaders Group, Institute for International Education (IIE); Founder/Director, Initiative for Innovative Teaching (INTEACH); Founder, Oxford's Middle East Centre; Chair/Founder, Copia Luxury Management; Life Fellow, St. Antonys College, University of Oxford; Dubai
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• Georges Makhoul 
• patron, collector; former President – MENA, Morgan Stanley; Dubai
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• Fatima Maleki 
• patron, collector; Donor/Committee Member, American Patrons of Tate; London
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• Patricia Millns 
• artist; Advisory Board Member, American University of Dubai (AUD) / Sovereign Art Foundation / Contemporary Practices Journal; Member, Emirates Fine Art Society; Honorary Member, Oman Fine Art Society; Dubai
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• Yola Noujaim
• patron, collector; Senior Architect, ynzdesign; Board of Advisors, Design Days Dubai; Beirut/Paris
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• Lekha Poddar
• patron, collector; President/Co-Founder, Devi Art Foundation; Founder, Carma; Patron/Founder, Textile Arts of India; New Delhi
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• Lulu Al Sabah
• writer, collector, curator; Co-Founder/Partner, JAMM; Kuwait
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• Sheikha Paula Al Sabah
• patron; Board Member, Serpentine Gallery; Kuwait
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• Ramin Salsali
• collector; Founder, Salsali Private Museum (SPM); Awardee, Patron of the Arts, UAE, 2010-12; Dubai
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• Ahmed bin Shabib 
• entrepreneur; Co-Founder/Co-Director, Brownbook Magazine / The Pavilion / Shelter; Dubai
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• Rashid bin Shabib 
• entrepreneur; Co-Founder/Co-Director, Brownbook Magazine / The Pavilion / Shelter; Dubai
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• Amir Shariat
• collector; Founder/CEO, Auctor Capital Partners Limited; London
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• Bashar Al Shroogi 
• patron, collector, curator; Founder/CEO, Cuadro Fine Art Gallery; Dubai
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• Çigdem Simavi 
• patron, collector; Founder/President, KÜSAV; Advisory Board Member – Europe, Christie’s International; Istanbul
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• Abir Dajani Tuqan 
• author, collector; London
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• Sharaf Ahmed Zaki Yamani
• collector; Director, Windlesham Advisors LTD; Member, Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation / The Yamani Cultural and Charitable Foundation; London

 
 
PATRONS ADVISORY BOARD 2013
 

• Maria Baibakova 
• curator; Founder/Director/Chief Curator, Baibakov Art Projects (BAP); Moscow/Boston
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• Dana Farouki 
• patron, collector; Committee Member, Abraaj Capital Art Prize; Trustee, MoMA PS1 / Creative Time; Dubai/New York
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• Ali Yussef Khadra 
• collector, publisher; Founder, Mixed Media Publishing / Canvas / Canvas TV; Regional Consultant, Christie’s; Member, Tate’s Middle East North Africa Acquisitions Committee (MENAAC); Committee Member, Prix Pictet / V&A’s Jameel Prize / Parasol Future Unit / Abraaj Capital Art Prize / Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize; Dubai
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• Lisa Mamounas 
• collector; Founder, Culinary Insiders; Member, The Junior Associates – MoMA; New York
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• Fayeeza Naqvi 
• collector; Founding Trustee, Aman Foundation / Aangan Trust; Founding Director, Saharay Welfare Organisation; Dubai
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• Smita Prabhakar 
• collector; Dubai
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• Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi 
• patron, collector, columnist and commentator; Founder/Chairman, Meem Gallery; Founder/Director, Barjeel Art Foundation; Sharjah
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• Maya Rasamny
• collector; patron, Tate Gallery; Co-Chair, Tate's Middle East North Africa Acquisitions Committee (MENAAC); London
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• Alia Al-Senussi 
• patron; VIP Relations Manager – Middle East, Art Basel Miami Beach; Director, Albion Gallery, 2005-09; Ambassador, Tate Young Patrons, 2008; Member, Tate’s Middle East North Africa Acquisitions Committee (MENAAC); Committee Member – Future Contemporaries Group, Serpentine Gallery; Chair, Tate Young Patrons / Aiglon College Charitable Trust, 2009-10; Co-Chair, Parasol Future Unit; President, Friends of Aiglon College (FOAC), 2005-10; London
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• Abdullah AlTurki
• collector, curator; Creative Director, Edge of Arabia; Co-Chair, Parasol Future Unit; Member, Tate’s Middle East North Africa Acquisitions Committee (MENAAC) / Serpentine Gallery Future Contemporary Group; London/Riyadh

 
 
CURATORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
 

• Negar Azimi 
• curator, writer; Senior Editor, Bidoun Magazine; Member, Arab Image Foundation (FAI); Board of Directors, Artists’ Space; New York
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• Aaron Cezar
  curator; Founding Director, Delfina Foundation; London

• Rami Farook 
• curator, publisher; Founder/Director, Traffic, Satellite / The State; Dubai
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• Vasif Kortun 
• curator, writer; Director - Research and Programmes, SALT; Board Member, International Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), 2010-13; Curator, UAE Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2011; Founding Director, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center / Project 4L, Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art / Museum of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Istanbul
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• Lateefa bint Maktoum 
• artist, curator; Founder/Director, Tashkeel; Dubai
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• Salwa Mikdadi 
• curator, art historian; Co-Founder/ex-Director, Cultural & Visual Arts Resource/ICWA; Co-Founder, Association of Modern & Contemporary Art of the Arab world, Iran and Turkey (AMCA); Head of the Arts and Culture Programme, Emirates Foundation; Abu Dhabi
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• Jessica Morgan 
• curator, writer; The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art, Tate; Curator - Contemporary Art, Tate Modern; Committee, Abraaj Capital Art Prize; London
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• Elaine W Ng 
• editor, publisher, curator; Editor/Publisher, ArtAsiaPacific (AAP) magazine; Programme Advisor - Exhibition Studies and Art Curatorship MA, Hong Kong Art School; Hong Kong/New York
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• Hans Ulrich Obrist 
• curator, critic, art historian; Co-Director - Exhibitions and Programmes, Director - International Projects, Serpentine Gallery; Curator, Museum in Progress, Vienna, 1993-2000 / Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2000-06 ; Contributing Editor, Abitare Magazine, Artforum, Paradis Magazine and 032c Magazine; London
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• Jack Persekian
• curator; Founder/Director, Anadiel Gallery / Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art / XEIN Productions; Founder/Head Curator, The Jerusalem Show; Head Curator, The Palestinian Museum; Artistic Director/Head Curator, Sharjah Biennial 2004-09; Director, Sharjah Art Foundation 2009-11; Jerusalem

 
 
GALLERY SELECTION COMMITTEE 2012-2013
 

• Chantal Crousel, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
• Lorenzo Fiaschi, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Le Moulin
• Ursula Krinzinger, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna 
• Sunny Rahbar, The Third Line, Dubai
• Andrée Sfeir-Semler, Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg / Beirut

 
 
GLOBAL ART FORUM
 
Shumon Basar
writer, author (With/Without; Cities from Zero; Did Someone Say Participate?; Hans Ulrich Obrist Interviews Volume 2; Translated By; Tercume Eden and Do You Often Confuse Love With Fame and With Success?; currently writing World!World!World!); Commissioner, Global Art Fourm_7 (2013); Director, Cultural Programme, Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) / Global Art Forum_6 (2012); Co-founder, sexymachinery (collective); Editor-at-Large, Tank magazine; Contributing Editor, Bidoun magazine; Co-curator, Translated By (touring exhibition); Co-programmer, The Library is on Fire, Luma Foundation; London
 
H.G. Masters
writer, editor; Editor-at-Large, ArtAsiaPacific magazine; Editor, ArtAsiaPacific Almanac; Curator, Global Art Forum_7 (2013); Recipient, Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant, Andy Warhol Foundation (2011); Istanbul