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List of Contributors<br />
Neil Brodie graduated from the University of Liverpool with a Ph.D. in Archaeology<br />
in 1991 and has held positions at the British School at Athens, the McDonald Institute<br />
for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, where he was Research<br />
Director of the Illicit Antiquities Research Centre, and Stanford University’s Archaeology<br />
Centre. Since February 2012, he has been Senior Research Fellow at the Scottish Centre<br />
for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely on<br />
issues concerning the antiquities market, and was co-author (with Jennifer Doole and<br />
Peter Watson) of the report Stealing History commissioned by the Museums Association<br />
and ICOM-UK to advise upon the illicit trade in cultural material. He also co-edited<br />
Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and the Antiquities Trade (2006, with Morag M. Kersel,<br />
Christina Luke and Kathryn Walker Tubb), Illicit Antiquities: The Theft of Culture and<br />
the Extinction of Archaeology (2002, with Kathryn Walker Tubb), and Trade in Illicit<br />
Antiquities: The Destruction of the World’s Archaeological Heritage (2001, with Jennifer<br />
Doole and Colin Renfrew).<br />
Brian I. Daniels is the Director of Research and Programmes for the Penn Cultural<br />
Heritage Centre at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, a Lecturer in the Department<br />
of Art History at Rutgers University, and a research associate at the Smithsonian<br />
Institution. Dr Daniels co-directs the Safeguarding the Heritage of Syria and Iraq project,<br />
which aims to enhance the protection of cultural heritage by supporting professionals<br />
and activists in conflict areas, and leads a National Science Foundation-supported<br />
study about the intentional destruction of cultural heritage. He has also worked with<br />
Native American communities on issues surrounding heritage rights and repatriation<br />
for over 15 years. Previously, he served as the manager of the National Endowment<br />
for the Humanities Regional Centre Initiative at San Francisco State University, where<br />
he worked on strategies for community engagement and heritage documentation. Dr<br />
Daniels received his doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania.<br />
Tess Davis is a Researcher in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the<br />
University of Glasgow. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Heritage Watch and<br />
the Ocean Foundation, and is Vice Chair of the American Society of International Law’s<br />
Cultural Heritage and the Arts Interest Group. She is admitted to the New York State Bar,<br />
Third Department, and a member of the New York State Bar Association.<br />
Sophie Delepierre studied at Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur<br />
(FUNDP) and at the Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL). After obtaining<br />
a Masters degree in Law and Art History, she specialized in Art Market Studies (Master<br />
2 Marchés de l’art) at the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She joined the<br />
UNESCO Culture Sector in 2009, where she contributed in the revitalization of the<br />
Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and<br />
Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (1970), first working as consultant, and<br />
then as associate expert in 2013. In support of the Program Specialist, she drafted many<br />
working documents and legal notices on strategies to fight against the illicit traffic of<br />
cultural goods.<br />
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