Speakers

Anaïs Aguerre has over 15 years of experience as a consultant and senior museum professional working in London, New York, Paris and Singapore. Anaïs contributed in particular to the successful development of the British Museum’s touring exhibitions programme, was instrumental in developing and delivering the pioneering international partnership leading to the creation of a new V&A Gallery at Design Society in Shenzhen and was behind the conception and development of the successful V&A International Training Courses for museum professionals from across the globe. Among Culture Connect’s first assignments, Anaïs worked as Project Director for the ReACH programme, a global initiative on the Reproduction of Art and Cultural Heritage spearheaded by the Victoria and Albert Museum in partnership with the Peri Charitable Foundation. As part of Culture Connect’s mission, Anaïs champions the study of cultural diplomacy and culture as soft power in universities. She is notably a member of the Advisory Committee for the ‘MA on Cultural and Digital Diplomacy’ at UCSC in Rome, Italy where she teaches on ‘Cultural Diplomacy in Action’