Peter Geschiere, Chairman, Professor of African Anthropology University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Rahul Mehrotra, Architect, Urban Designer, Professor of Architecture at MIT, Mumbai, India /Boston, USA
N’Goné Fall, Curator, Architect, Cultural Consultant, Dakar, Senegal / Paris, France
Laksmi Pamuntjak, Poet, Writer, Jakarta, Indonesia
José Roca, Curator, Bogotá, Colombia
Fariba de Bruin-Derakhshani is secretary to the Awards Committee
Emile Fallaux,
Chairman, Member of the Board of the Prince Claus Fund
Hanru Hou, Art critic and curator, Paris, France and San Francisco, United States
Ellen Ombre,
writer, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Khaled Al Hroub, author, Palestina / England
Okwui Enwezor,
curator, Lagos, Nigeria and New York, United States
Albert Ferré, editor at Actar Publishers, Barcelona, Spain is managing editor of the Prince Claus Fund Library
Els van der Plas,
Chair, Director of the Prince Claus Fund
Shahidul Alam, founder and director of DRIK Picture Library, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Peter Karanja, director Mathare Youth Sports Association Nairobi, Kenya
Cecilia Kenning, chairperson Asociación Pro Arte y Cultura, St. Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Felix Madrazo, Supersudaca, Latin-America
Odile Gakire Katese, co -director Centre Universitaire des Arts, Butare Rwanda
Ly Daravuth, director Reyum Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Zeina Arida, director of Arab Image Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Davide Quadrio, co-founder and director of BizArt Art Centre, Shanghai, China
Etienne Minoungou, Compagnie Falinga, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
José-Carlos Mariategui, Jorge Villacorta, Alta Tecnologia Andina, Lima, Peru
Yto Barrada, director of
Cinemathéque de Tanger, Tanger, Morocco
Laurence Hughes, International Alliance of Independent Publishers, Paris, France
The International Advisory Board consists of three committees whose members meet at least once a year. These three advisory committees are
the Awards Committee,
the Publication Committee and
the Network Committee.
These committees can be incidentally extended with external advisors. The International Advisory Board and the General Advisors advises the Board of the Fund on major policy issues.
Members of the Awards Committee 2009
The 2009 Awards Committee, from left to right: Fariba de Bruin-Derakhshani,Rahul Mehrotra, Peter Geschiere, NGoné Fall, Manthia Diawara, Patricia T. de Valdez, Laksmi Pamuntjak, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Merel Oord, Els van der Plas, Barbara Murray
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The Network Committee in Syria in June 2009 from left to right ( up to down): Cecilia Kenning, Germaine Acogny,Shahidul Alam, Etienne Minoungou, Jorge Villacorta,Martin Mhando,Daravuth Ly, Joumana el Zein, Sophia Saavreda, Zeina Arida, Helmut Vogt, Hasif Amini, Jose Carlos Mariategui,Ana Rascovsky,Davide Quadrio
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