The International Advisory Board was set up in 1994 through the joint efforts of the State Hermitage and UNESCO.
Representatives of the foremost institutions of culture and art have become members. Drawing on their long and varied experience of management and work in such institutions, the members of the council support the management of the State Hermitage in devising and implementing development strategies that are of a world standard. The Council meets annually and the agenda for the meeting is set by the Director of the State Hermitage. Between meetings the Director consults members of the Council when their assistance may prove helpful.
Current members
Marion Ackermann
Director General, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Mounir Bouchenaki
Former Assistant Director-General for Culture, UNESCO
Michael Brand
Director, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Michael Conforti
Former Director, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Stefano De Caro
Special Advisor to the Director-General, ICCROM, Rome
Taco Dibbits
General Director, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Gabriele Finaldi, Chairman
Director, The National Gallery, London
Max Hollein
Director, Metropolitan Museum, New York
Henri Loyrette
Former President and General Director, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Alfred Pacquement
Former Director, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Hermann Parzinger
President, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Mikhail Piotrovsky
Director, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Stuart Gibson
Secretary to the International Advisory Board Former Director, Hermitage UNESCO Project
Svetlana Philippova
Secretary to the International Advisory Board Head, Hermitage Friends Office
Retired members
Reinhold Baumstark
Director, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich
Irène Bizot
Ancien Administrateur général, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris
J. Carter Brown
Director Emeritus, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Wim Crouwel
Former Director, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Amsterdam
Wolf-Dieter Dube
Former Director, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Horst Gödicke
Representative of the Director-General of UNESCO, Paris
Alan Hancock
Director, PROCEED, UNESCO, Paris
Anne d'Harnoncourt
Director, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Johann Georg Prinz von Hohenzollern
General Director, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Michel Laclotte
Directeur honoré du Musée du Louvre, Paris
Ronald de Leeuw
Director, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Neil MacGregor
Former Director, The British Museum, London
Henk van Os
Former Director, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Annamaria Petrioli Tofani
Former Director, Uffizi, Florence
Edmund Pillsbury
Former Director, Kimbell Museum, Fort Worth
Françoise Rivière
Assistant Director-General for Culture, UNESCO, Paris
Alberto Ronchey
Former Minister of Culture of Italy, Rome
Paolo Viti
Direttore Activita Culturale, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
