A Conversation With Princess Alia Al-Senussi on the Art World Ecosystem

Wednesday, November 16, 2022 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm CET/GMT+1 

Waldstr. 15

Princess Alia Al-Senussi, PhD, is an active member of the contemporary art world with a focus on cultural strategy and patronage systems. She is a cultural strategist, writer, patron, public speaker and academic. 

Dr Al-Senussi has served as Art Basel's UK and MENA Representative for over a decade and in 2019 she was appointed Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Culture, Saudi Arabia, where she focuses on developing international partnerships whilst working on a variety of projects across the Ministry’s commissions and the Diriyah Biennale Foundation. She is a visiting lecturer at Brown University’s Watson Institute, working with the Middle East Studies Program.

Dr Al-Senussi is currently a member of the Tate Modern Advisory Council (London) and serves as a founding member of the Tate's Acquisitions Committee for the Middle East and North Africa, the Board of 1:54 The African Art Fair, and the Middle East Circle of the Guggenheim, the Middle East Studies Advisory Committee at Brown University as well as the Board of Patrons of Art Dubai, having played an integral role in the founding of the fair. She has a PhD in Politics from SOAS (London), examining the nexus of power and cultural patronage, featuring Saudi Arabia as a case study. She graduated Magna Cum Laude in International Relations (honors) and Middle East Studies from Brown University and holds an MA in Political Science from Brown and an MSc in Law, Anthropology and Society from the London School of Economics. 

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