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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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