Please join us for a talk about how best to protect art in times of war, a subject that is more relevant to the art world now than it has been for decades. Moderated by James Ferrer from Lockton, the panel includes Peter Stones from Blue Shield International, Anne Webber from the Commission for Looted Art and James Ratcliffe from the Art Loss Register.
Professor Peter G Stone FSA OBE
Peter is President of the Blue Shield, the independent, impartial, neutral, & not-for-profit international NGO dedicated to the protection of heritage in the event of armed conflict or disaster (https://theblueshield.org/). He is also the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection (CPP) & Peace at Newcastle University, UK, the only such designation in the world. Since 2003, he has focussed on working with the heritage, humanitarian, and uniformed sectors on the protection of heritage in times of conflict, stressing the importance of heritage as a contributor to peace. He argues that tangible and intangible heritage provide a sense of place, belonging, and identity supporting individual and communal dignity and well-being. Such heritage reflects our differences but, of far greater importance, it celebrates and emphasises our similarities. Before joining the University, he worked for English Heritage, as a field archaeologist, and history teacher. Peter worked in honorary roles for the World Archaeological Congress for 24 years and was its Honorary CEO 1998-2008. He worked with colleagues in China 2007-2014 on the better management of the historic environment and heritage sites.
Anne Webber CBE
Anne is founder and Co-Chair of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe (CLAE), a non-profit expert representative body set up in London in 1999. The Commission negotiates restitution policies with governments, institutions and the art trade internationally, conducts research, acts for families, institutions and governments to identify, locate and recover their looted cultural property, and advises private collectors on the provenance of works in their collections. She is also founder and Director of the Central Registry of Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945 at www.lootedart.com, an online repository of news, research, information and publications from 49 countries and a database of over 25,000 objects.
James Ratcliffe
James is the General Counsel and Director of Recoveries at The Art Loss Register. Before joining the ALR 13 years ag, James practiced as a solicitor in commercial litigation in London. Prior to that, his academic background was in archaeology. James now manages the recoveries team at the ALR, working to secure the recovery of stolen and looted art and cultural property across the globe.
James Ferrer
James is an experienced leader in the art insurance market with over 20 years of related experience. He oversees and is responsible for arranging insurance on both a retail and wholesale basis, for Fine Art risks globally.
James has extensive experience in insuring a diverse range of clients including art foundations, art dealers, auctioneers, museum collections and exhibition programmes around the globe. He works with fine art valuers, shippers and loss adjusters to provide clients with a broad range of support services. He is based in London and arranges insurance solutions using Lloyd’s of London specialist fine art markets.
James has worked for Sotheby’s auctioneers; as an appraiser for Chubb and he has been a fine art insurance broker for over 15 years.