Nancy Bell is currently acting as a preservation consultant for The National Archives, USA. Formerly she was Head of Collection Care, The National Archives, UK (200817). She also headed The National Archives Research and Development team that delivered an integrated research programme for The National Archives which included conservation science research. She was awarded the Plowden Medal in 2015 for her work on developing revised environmental standards for museums, libraries and archives.
Iris L. F. den Boer has an MA in Classical Archaeology from Leiden University and an MA in Principles of Conservation from UCL. She currently lives and works in the Netherlands. She is a board member of a regional department of the AWN, a national archaeological society for volunteers in the Netherlands. She also works as a co-editor of the departments archaeological magazine, Grondig Bekeken.
Miriam Clavir, Conservator Emerita at the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Canada, has won awards for her work focusing on conservators relationship with Indigenous material heritage and the need to understand that conservation preserves cultural belongings with which the originators have ongoing relationships, and so hold key roles in conservation decisions.
Kim Cullen Cobb is a conservator in private practice in the Washington, DC area and Research Associate with the Smithsonians Museum Conservation Institute. She holds a Masters in Art Conservation from Queens University, Canada. Prior to entering the field of conservation she was a practising goldsmith, artist and teacher. Cullen Cobb began working as a visiting teacher at the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage in the spring of 2011.
Dinah Eastop PhD, FIIC, ACR has 40 years experience in conservation. She has worked at the Textile Conservation Centre (UK), The National Archives (UK), the University of Melbourne and with ICCROM, notably for CollAsia. She holds honorary posts at three UK universities: Glasgow, UCL and Southampton. Publications include Chemical Principles of Textile Conservation, co-authored with gnes Tmr-Balzsy (1998); Upholstery Conservation, co-edited with Kathryn Gill (2001); Changing Views of Textile Conservation (2011) and Refashioning and Redress (2016), co-edited with Mary Brooks.
Jessica S. Johnson is Head of Conservation at the Smithsonians Museum Conservation Institute. Previously she worked with the University of Delaware and helped to establish the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage. She was Senior Conservator at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC and Conservator for the Museum Management Program of the National Park Service. She has worked for many years with the Penn Museums Gordion Archaeological Project in Turkey.
Brian Michael Lione is the International Cultural Heritage Protection Program Manager for the Smithsonians Museum Conservation Institute, the lead for MCI projects in Erbil (Iraq) and an instructor at the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage (IICAH). Before joining the Smithsonian he helped to establish the IICAH, serving as Director and Executive Director from 2009 until 2017. His work at the Smithsonian focuses on capacity building and sustainability for the IICAH.
Susanna Pancaldo is an objects conservator, specialising in archaeological materials. She received an MA in Art History and Diploma in Conservation from New York University and has worked on numerous short-term contracts and excavations, the latter mainly in Italy. She was Conservation Manager for the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and Senior Conservator for UCL Museums and Collections before taking up her current post as Conservator of Objects (Metals) at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Renata F. Peters is Associate Professor in Conservation at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. She is also Chair of the Conservation Higher Education Institutions Network of the Institute of Conservation (ICON CHEIN), Conservation Lead of the Olduvai Geochronology Archaeology Project in Tanzania and Principal Investigator of the research project Fibres of Resistance: Tikuna barkcloth and identity in the Amazon.
Elizabeth Pye is Emeritus Professor of Archaeological and Museum Conservation at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, where she taught both theoretical and practical aspects of heritage conservation. Her current interests focus on access to museum and heritage objects. She is author of Caring for the Past: Issues in conservation for archaeology and museums and editor of The Power of Touch: Handling objects in museum and heritage contexts.
Flavia Ravaioli is an objects conservator and research associate at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. She previously worked as a researcher at University College London Qatar from 2015 to 2017, where she focused on the preservation of religious heritage in Islamic contexts and data analysis in conservation. She has fieldwork experience as an archaeological conservator in Egypt, Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan and Italy.