Dr. Mariët Westermann
Dr. Mariët Westermann is the Director and CEO of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, directing its flagship institution in New York, overseeing the Foundation and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and providing collaborative leadership to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Westermann previously led NYU Abu Dhabi, a degree-granting campus of NYU, as Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive, having been the institution’s founding Provost from 2007 to 2010. She has also served as Executive Vice President at the Mellon Foundation, Director at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, Associate Director at the Clark Art Institute, and a faculty member at Rutgers University. She earned a BA at Williams College and MA and PhD at the Institute of Fine Arts. Westermann is a historian of art of the Netherlands, her native country, and has received fellowships, honors, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Philosophical Society, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Clark Art Institute, College Art Association, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. She serves on the boards of ALIPH, the Educational Testing Service, and the Rijksmuseum, and chairs the Scholar Rescue Fund of the Institute of International Education.

Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi