Faculty Bios - Sotheby's Institute of Art

Faculty Bios
Georgina Adam, Editor at Large, The Art Newspaper
Georgina Adam has written about art and the art market for the last 25 years. Currently Editor at
Large for The Art Newspaper, she is also a columnist for the Financial Times. She has
freelanced for The Daily Telegraph; Art and Antiques; Art and Auction; Artnews (US);
L’Estampille Objet d’Art (France); and Nikkei (Japan). She is a member of the International
Association of Art Critics (AICA).
Christopher Baer, Director of Finance, Ben Brown Fine Arts
Christopher’s educational background includes an MBA from the Duke University, Durham, N.C.
as well as Economist SEBA from Lucerne School of Economics and Business Administration in
Lucerne. He obtained a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art
in London and has attended several evening courses at the Institute and City University.
Christopher is currently the Sales and Financial Manager at Ben Brown Fine Arts in London.
Prior to this he was working as an intern in the Contemporary Art Department at the Sotheby’s
auction house in London and held several senior positions in various financial institutions
including being a Senior Equity Analyst at Pricewaterhousecoopers in London and a Consultant
in Zurich. He has also been working as a Private Banker at Bank Julius Bar & Co. in Zurich, a
Summer Associate at Union Bank of Switzerland and as an Equity Analyst at Morgan Stanley
and Company in New York. Christopher is fluent in French, German and English and his
interests include photography, travel, reading, golf and snow skiing.
Rachel Clarke, Director - Head of Arts Sponsorship at Four Communications
Rachel has worked in the cultural sector for over fifteen years both arts-side – at the Edinburgh
International Festival and Royal National Theatre in London - and as a consultant to corporate
clients.
Rachel joined Four to set up the arts offering, arriving from SCL where she was a Director,
developing Morgan Stanley’s extensive European arts sponsorship programme and working
with the Tate Modern to develop the hugely successful Unilever Series, the award-winning
Turbine Hall commissions. She has experience of creating sponsorship strategies for
companies including American Airlines, National Grid and Corus.
At Four she leads the HSBC account, advising on strategy, activation and communication of the
Group’s international cultural sponsorship portfolio which is based around the theme of Cultural
Exchange. She also works for HSBC Private Bank on its portfolio based around design. Rachel
assisted Accenture to develop the concept of Intelligent Funding, mixing VIK business expertise
and traditional sponsorship to create a strategy and portfolio that delivers real business benefit
for the firm. Rachel has positioned Four SAS as the only PR company in the UK to specialise in
PR for cultural sponsorships, ensuring client cut through in the media, alongside more traditional
arts PR where accounts include Liverpool ’08, European Capital of Culture and Arts Council
England.
Robin Dean, Founder and Director, Rob Dean Fine Art Ltd.
Robin Dean completed undergraduate studies in comparative religion at Cambridge University
and postgraduate studies in Indian and Southeast Asian Art at the School of Oriental and
African Studies in London. He worked at Christie’s and lived in India for 2 years working as the
representative for Christie’s India and then worked for Sotheby’s as the International Head of
the Indian and Southeast Asian Art Department. He was a consultant for Sotheby’s in the Indian
and Southeast Asian Art Department and currently runs his own company Rob Dean Art Ltd that
specialises in modern and contemporary South Asian Art. He has been at the forefront of
modern contemporary Indian Art Auctions for the past ten years. Rob has recently started up a
new auction house in India, Pundole’s with Dadiba Pundole.

Dr. Anna Dempster, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London
Anna Dempster is a Senior Lecturer in Art Business, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London. She has
a BA and M.Phil in History from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the Judge
Business School, Cambridge. For the past six years she has held a tenured lectureship at
Birkbeck College, University of London becoming Programme Director of the new MSc/MA in
Creative Industries. Her research and teaching experience is in leading institutions, including
London Business School, Rotterdam School of Management and the University of the Arts,
London, where she was Research Director of the Creative Industries Observatory. Her research
focuses on the role of risk and uncertainty in the creative industries and she has published in
the areas of strategic management, innovation and entrepreneurship in leading national and
international journals.
Emilie Faure, Sales Executive, White Cube
Emilie Faure works with White Cube gallery, focusing on sales in the Middle Eastern region.
Prior to joining White Cube, Emilie worked for three years as curator of The Farjam Collection in
Dubai. She has also worked at Sotheby Institute of Art in London, at the British Museum in the
institution’s Business Strategy department, at the Museum of Modern Art in NY, and at La
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, in Paris. Emilie graduated from Sciences-Po, Paris
with a Master's (M.A.) in Cultural Policy and Museum Studies, and from Harvard with a Bachelor
of Arts (B.A.) in visual arts, received with honors. She is fluent in English, French, and Spanish.
Tim Hunter, Director, Art Advisory, Gurr Johns
Born in Sydney and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, Tim Hunter was awarded first class
honours in Modern History in 1988. He completed his doctorate in Medieval History in 1993. In
1989-1992 he taught History and History of Art at University College, Oxford, before joining the
curatorial staff at the Ashmolean Museum in 1992. In 1993 he became a specialist at Christie's
London, becoming a Director in 1998 and Head of the 19th Century European Art Department in
2000. Since 2009 he has been a Director at Gurr Johns London. Dr Hunter has long been
involved in opera, as artistic director and designer for a number of productions at Oxford,
including the Oxford Playhouse. He has written opera reviews for a variety of publications.
Subhas Kim Kandasamy, Founder and Director, Kandasamy Projects
Subhas is the Founder and Director of his own company, Kandasamy Projects, a nomadic
contemporary design gallery promoting emerging international designers. Prior to this, Subhas
was a director of the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London from 2009 to early 2011. Prior to
his time at the Carpenters’ Gallery, he was Associate Director of Patricia Low Contemporary in
Gstaad, 2008-2009, and Aicon Gallery in London, 2007-2008. He has an MA in the History of
Art from University College London and a BA in History of Art and Archaeology from
SOAS/UCL.

Joseph Lampel, Professor of Strategy, Cass Business School
Joseph Lampel has been with Cass since 2002. He is the author with Henry Mintzberg and
Bruce Ahlstrand of the Strategy Safari (Second Edition, 2008). He is also the editor with Henry
Mintzberg, James Brian Quinn, and Sumantra Ghoshal of The Strategy Process (Fourth
Edition). Publications include, Strategic Management Journal, Sloan Management Review, and
Fortune Magazine. Joseph Lampel obtained his undergraduate degree in Physics from McGill
University, Canada, and later pursued his MSc in Technology Policy at the Institut d'Histoire et
Sociopolitique des Sciences at Université de Montréal, Canada. After working for the Science
Council of Canada and the Ontario government he returned to McGill University to pursue
doctoral studies in Strategic Management. His dissertation "Strategy in Thin Industries" won the
Best Dissertation Award from the Administrative Science Association of Canada 1992. Prior to
Cass, Joseph was Assistant Professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University
from 1989-1996. Subsequently he was Reader at the University of St. Andrews from 1996 to
1999, and Professor of Strategic Management at University of Nottingham Business School
from 1999 to 2001. He has also taught at McGill University, Concordia University, Montreal, and
the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Joseph Lampel regularly works with top
management teams in the area of strategy, project-based learning, and business innovation.
Among the organizations that he has worked with are Lovell’s, Pratt and Whitney Canada, EMI
Music Group, Rexam, Woolworth, GlaxoSmithKline, Hagemeyer, Halcrow, and the International
Chamber of Commerce in Paris. He is a regular invited guest on the BBC TV, BBC World, ITV,
Channel 4, Sky News, and CNBC.
Henry Lydiate, Consultant Lecturer, MA Art Business, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London
LL.B, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Henry Lydiate is a Visiting Professor of Art Law,
University of the Arts, London, and a Course Consultant and Visiting Lecturer in legal, business
and professional practice studies at a number of major art schools in the UK since 1978. He is a
legal and business consultant specialising in the creative arts.
His publications include: The Visual Artist and the Law, The Visual Artist’s Copyright Handbook,
Visual Arts and Crafts Guide to the New Laws of Copyright and Moral Right.
He is an author of a regular art law column for Art Monthly; collected art law articles on-line at:
www.artquest.org.uk/artlaw
Peter Osborne, Director, Osborne Samuel Gallery
Osborne Samuel Ltd was formed in 2004 after the merger of Peter Osborne’s company
Berkeley Square Gallery and the adjacent gallery, Samuel & Co. directed by Gordon Samuel.
The partnership continues the specialities of both businesses, the partners having collaborated
on a number of important exhibitions for many years before the merger. Peter Osborne was the
Director of the Harlech Fine Art Group and founded Berkeley Square Gallery in 1988, which he
acquired in 1994.
Anders Petterson, Founder and Managing Director of ArtTactic, Inc.
CEMS in Management, London School of Economics and Hochschule St.Gallen, Switzerland.
A leading authority on art market research, with particular focus on the Western and Emerging
contemporary art markets in India, China, Middle-East and Russia. He is the Founder and
Managing Director of ArtTactic Ltd, a London-based art market research and advisory company
set up in 2001. He previously worked as an investment banker at JP Morgan in London, New
York and Frankfurt. He is a frequent art market commentator on Bloomberg TV and CNN.
Anders is also a Consultant Lecturer for the MA Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art.

Dr. Iain Robertson, Head of Art Business Studies, Sotheby’s Institute of Art
PhD on the emerging art markets of Greater China, City University, London in 2000. In addition
to over 100 articles for the arts and national press Iain Robertson writes a column on the art
market for the quarterly Australian Art Market Report. His book, Understanding International Art
Markets and Management, was published in 2005. This book was followed by The Art Business
(2008). A third book, A New Art from Emerging Markets was published in March 2011. Iain has
contributed to additional publications, such as a chapter on Taiwan in James Goodwin’s The
International Art Market. The Essential Guide for collectors and investors (2008) and a chapter
on China’s art market in Jonathan Harris’ Globalization and Contemporary Art: A Convergence
of People and Ideas (2011).
London Editor for Australian Art Market Report, Advisor to the Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong,
Consultant to Hana Bank. Seoul, South Korea and Deloitte Luxembourg, Visiting Professor,
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Educational Director Gwang-ju Art Fair, South Korea
(2011), Advisor to Prevaleo, Toronto, Advisor to China International Art Foundation, Beijing. He
formerly served as Co-ordinator of Research at Free Form Arts Trust (1990-1992);
Exhibitions Secretary at The Royal Institute of British Architects, Heinz Gallery(1992-1994);
Cultural Attache for The British Council, Taiwan (1994-1995); Director Yu YU Yang Sculpture
Foundation, Taiwan (1995-1997); Senior Lecturer in the Department of Arts Policy &
Management, City University (1997-2004); and Asia Correspondent for the Arts Newspaper
(1993-2004).
Mike Slocombe, Website Designer, Internet Consultant and Author
Creates websites from concept through to planning, design, implementation and promotion.
Works on information architecture/user interface, usability and accessibility, planning, promotion
and building online communities. I also specialise in search engine promotion.
Presented BBC web education programs (Learning Zone, Click Online) and am regular on
Radio/TV, talking about web-related matters. Occasional lecturer at Brighton and London
Southbank Universities. Judged several international design awards including BBC2 Awards,
London International Advertising Awards and D&AD. Have been guest speaker at the Royal
Society of Art, NUJ, Association of International Broadcasters, British Council, ICA, Institute of
Ideas and Ananova Alert (with Will Self). I wrote for the UK's biggest Net magazine, Internet
Magazine (as their resident 'Web Expert' and software reviewer) for six years and have
contributed to mainstream publications such as the New Statesman, Daily Telegraph, Guardian
and Independent. I'm currently writing for the online technology website, Digital Lifestyles.
My first book, 'Max Hits: building and promoting successful websites' was published by
RotoVision in January 2002 (republished 2004), with Design Week describing it as 'delivering its
message in one of the most stylish, accessible and no-nonsense ways they'd yet seen'.
The urban75 website is my own personal non-profit project which has been on-line for seven
years. In 2000 it was listed by top9.com as the most popular lifestyle/culture website on the
web, and the independent 'popularity ranking' site, Marketleap ranks urban75 higher than the
likes of BBC Radio 1, thesimpsons.com and ministryofsound.com. Staunchly advert-free, it has
gained a strong sense of online community, attracting over a quarter of a million page
impressions a day, with the site receiving a huge amount of both national and international
press. urban75 has won many on-line and magazine awards and has been described as "one of
the best sites in the world" by Dazed & Confused magazine and " one of best 100 websites in
the world" by FHM Magazine.

Dr. Neil Wenman, Director, Hauser & Wirth Gallery
Dr Neil Wenman is a director at Hauser & Wirth, London and joined for the opening of the new
space on Savile Row in 2010. He was previously an Associate Director at White Cube and prior
to that worked at Lisson Gallery for 8 years, leaving as a Director in 2008. He obtained his
Dip’Arch and M’Arch, M'Phil and PhD at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (BSc. 1996,
2004, 2006, 2007, 2009), after an MA at Central Saint Martins in 2000. He has previously
contributed to Art Review, Architects Journal and How To Spend It at the Financial Times.
Lacey West, Founder and Director, Lacey West Art International (LWAI)
Lacey West is originally from Texas and moved to London in 2004 to complete a Masters in
Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute. Upon completion, she began working as gallery
manager for a contemporary gallery in Notting Hill and was made director after a year. After
working 2.5 years in this gallery, she took a senior role at a modern Mayfair gallery but missed
working with living artists and generally didn’t feel it was the right fit so she returned to the
contemporary gallery where she worked part-time while starting a company. Lacey saw a niche
in art recruitment as, at the time, there was only one company that specialized in the field and
she felt she was ready to become an entrepreneur. Lacey launched Lacey West Art
International (LWAI) in May of 2010, offering a complete recruitment service with reasonable
commission rates and well-matched candidate referrals for all art-related businesses in the UK
and abroad. Lacey also dabbles as a private art dealer and has hosted exhibitions in a pop-up
space.
Andy Wilkes, Head of Public Sector Training, BPP
Andy Wilkes is a CIMA qualified Management accountant and qualified trainer. He has 17 years
experience of working in the public sector and over 10 years experience in delivering financial
training. For the past 3 years he has been head of Public Sector training at BPP professional
education majoring on trying to make the complex language of finance understandable to the
general public. Andy is married with 2 children, which he still finds amazing being an accountant
and all, and his interests outside of a balance sheet include playing cricket and golf and cooking
with his 8 year old daughter.