| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Tess Davis | Executive Director, The Antiquities Coalition |
| Jessica Dittmer | National Art Crime Team |
| Richard Kurin | Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture, The Smithsonian Institute |
| Deborah Lehr (moderator) | Chairman and Founder, The Antiquities Coalition |
Meridian International Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan diplomacy center that has worked for over 60 years to connect leaders through culture and collaboration to drive solutions for complex challenges facing their organizations, communities, and countries with the vision that greater understanding and collaboration between the United States and the world leads to a more secure, prosperous future. The Meridian Center for Cultural Diplomacy is the leading center in the United States that employs the arts and culture as a tool of diplomacy and cross-cultural understanding. We work in partnership with the U.S. Department of State, U.S. embassies abroad, as well as the diplomatic community in Washington, DC, to develop and curate exhibitions, exchanges and programs that range from film screenings to mural arts programs to music performances. Our programs have reached millions of people in more than 310 cities in at least 80 countries worldwide.
