Board of Directors

Stichting CHARD (The Cultural Heritage At Risk Database)

Will Korner

Founder & Chair

Will has worked with international governments and law enforcement, museums, art market participants and many other stakeholders in the identification and return of stolen and looted art and antiquities. He regularly lectures and participates in working groups at UNESCO and governmental level, and drafted the Responsible Art Market (RAM) Antiquities Due Diligence Toolkit in 2024. Will is Head of Fairs at TEFAF, overseeing the world’s leading art and antiques fairs in Maastricht and New York, and has also worked as an antiquities and cultural heritage specialist.

Isabel Helszajn-Jewett
Project Liaison Volunteer

Isabel is an anthropologist with a background in Heritage and Islamic studies. She has worked in art trade due diligence and is currently based in Cambridge researching digital heritage in conflict zones.

Marion van der Marel-Konings
Treasurer

Marion is a business economist and art historian, and alongside her role as Treasurer of CHARD, she also acts as Treasurer and long term Board member of the Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici (VNK), the Dutch society of art historians.

James Ratcliffe

Trustee

James trained as a solicitor and archaeologist and has been General Counsel at the Art Loss Register for over 10 years. He leads the ALR’s recoveries team and at any one time is representing claimants ranging from private individuals to nation states in numerous cases of stolen and looted art and antiquities. As well as his links to claimants, the role requires close liaison with the art market and law enforcement agencies worldwide.

Volunteers

There is no renumeration for CHARD board directors.