Art connoisseur, businesswoman, design aficionado and philanthropist, Rajshree Pathy’s numerous interests make it impossible to define her with a single tag.

Born and raised in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu; Rajshree has a lineage that is steeped in the industrial history of South India. She passionately believes in education and wishes to create a system to share modern and contemporary culture with all the constituents of society, and thus creating effective awareness.

Kavita Singh is an Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is trained as an art historian at M S University of Baroda (MFA, 1987) and Punjab University, Chandigarh (PhD 1996). She was previously guest curator at the San Diego Museum of Art, California and Research Editor at Marg. She is currently working on a project on the place of museums in the social landscape of India; this project is supported by a collaborative grant from the Getty Foundation. She has published on Sikh art, Indian folk and courtly painting and the history of museums in India.

Andrea is the Director of Visual Arts at the British Council, since 1995. She is a Trustee of the White chapel Art Gallery, UK representative at UNESCO Cultural Commission; British Commissioner for the International Venice Biennale of Art and Architecture; Chair of the Assessment Panel, Prince’s Drawing School; Trustee of the Advisory Board, Calcutta Museum of Contemporary Art; Advisor to the National Gallery’s Art-in-Residence programme.

Former posts include: Trustee of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle-Gateshead; Member of the Fine Art Faculty, British School at Rome; Advisor, Imperial War Museum; Member of the National Trust’s Contemporary Art Foundation; Member RIBA’s International Architecture Board; Member of the Court of the Royal College of Art; Art Advisor to Channel 4 TV Big Art; Member, Fine Art Panel, Arts Council of England; Member, Crafts Council.

She was Curator of the British Council Collection from 1991-1995, where she was responsible for key purchases of contemporary art, by artists such as Rachel Whiteread, Damien Hirst, Peter Doig, Anya Gallacio Steve McQueen, Douglas Gordon. From 1974-1976 Teaching Associate, University of Minnesota, History of Art Department and from 1976-1980 was Keeper of Prints and Drawings at Birmingham City Art Gallery and recently she was on the panel to select the winner of the Northern Art Prize in London.

In 1996, she did her practical studies at New York Film Academy. In 2002, Culture Management at Stapferhaus Lenzburg, Switzerland.

From 1982-1990, she worked as a freelancer for art section of the daily journal "Der Bund".

From 1993-1996 she worked as a scientific collaborator at the Paul Klee Foundation, Bern; in 1994, she was the Project Manager of the Catalogue raisonné Paul Klee. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in der Paul-Klee-Stiftung und Projektleiterin des Werkkatalogs Paul Klee.

From 1989-2001, she was appointed to give various lectures for History of Art and Architecture, among others at the College for Architects, Biel and at Bern University of the Arts.

In 1999 to 2005, she was the director and curator of Kunsthaus Langenthal, priority contemporary art. In 2003, she won the Culture Award of the Canton of Bern and the City of Langenthal.