Professor Steve Dixon is a world-renowned academic, researcher and interdisciplinary artist with a distinguished career in both higher education leadership and the professional creative industries. He joined LASALLE College of the Arts as its sixth President in February 2012. Under his leadership, the College has matured to become one of Asia’s leading arts institutions, and remains the only local institution to win the coveted EduTrust Star, Singapore’s highest mark of quality in private education. He has an accomplished record as a strategic and visionary leader. Prior to LASALLE he was Head of the School of Arts, then Pro Vice Chancellor at Brunel University, London, where he spearheaded initiatives to develop business partnerships, secure multi-million pound research contracts and maximise the external impact of the University’s portfolio of research and teaching programmes.

Dr Cissie Fu is the Head of the McNally School of Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts. She is a political theorist and co-founder of the Political Arts Initiative which is interested in the ways in which people interact and compose political ideas and actions through technology and the arts. Born in Hong Kong, Cissie studied, taught, curated and performed across cultural and educational institutions in Asia, Europe, the UK, and the Americas and most recently as Dean of the Faculty of Culture and Community at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Canada. Cissie’s practice-led research interests in relational aesthetics and decolonial action, combined with her experiments in experiential and transformative organisational design, inform her approach to institution-building as a creative, critical and communal cultural practice.

Dr Natalia Grincheva is a Programme Leader in Arts Management at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Digital Studio at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on innovative forms and global trends in contemporary museology, digital diplomacy and international cultural relations. She received many prestigious international academic awards, including Fulbright (2007–2009), Quebec Fund (2011–2013), Australian Endeavour (2012–2013) and SOROS research grant (2013–2014). In 2020 she was awarded Oxford Fellowship for her visiting research residency at the Digital Diplomacy Research Center at the University of Oxford. Apart from her most recent co-authored book, Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (Cambridge University Press: 2024), Dr Grincheva’s publication portfolio includes two monographs: Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age (Routledge: 2020) and Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy (Routledge: 2019).

Dr Elizabeth Stainforth is a lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research explores the politics of digital heritage and memory, focusing on the shaping of digital heritage infrastructures in the context of national cultures and international politics. She has published widely on this topic in journals including Museum and Society, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities Quarterly and Memory Studies. She has also furthered her research through funded postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Edinburgh (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities) and the University of Melbourne (Digital Studio). Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (CUP, 2024) is her first co-authored research monograph.

Professor Tim Winter is Senior Research Fellow and Research Cluster Leader, Inter-Asian Engagements, at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He was previously a Professorial Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Tim has led the development of heritage diplomacy as a cross-disciplinary concept and introduced geocultural power to the analysis of international affairs. His recent articles on these topics have appeared in Geopolitics, International Affairs, International Journal of Cultural Policy, and Environment and Planning D. His latest books are Geocultural Power: China’s Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty First Century (University of Chicago Press 2019) and The Silk Road: Connecting Histories and Futures (Oxford University Press, 2022).