NYU Steinhardt Arts Administration Programs

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Sylvia Renner – The Museum of Modern Art – VAA ’08

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MA Visual Arts Administration, 2008
Associate Director, International Funding, The Museum of Modern Art

Sylvia Renner has spent the past 18 years within some of the country’s most impactful media, political, and cultural organizations. She currently serves as the Associate Director of International Funding at The Museum of Modern Art, where she oversees the Museum’s strategy around international donor engagement. She also worked with MoMA’s International Program as a liaison between the Museum and international governmental, institutional, and scholarly networks. She has been at MoMA since 2007. Prior to that, she held positions in the office of Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. as Legislative Research Assistant for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and at the New York Times News Service in Paris as International Sales Associate.

She has served as a member of the Visual Arts Administration Alumni Council at New York University, the executive board of the Alliance Française de Washington, and on the steering committee of The Phillips Collection Contemporaries. She holds a BA in International Communications and International Politics from the American University of Paris and an MA in Visual Arts Administration from NYU, where she completed a thesis on cultural democratization in postwar France.

Robert Punkenhofer – Art&Idea – VAA ’09

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MA Visual Arts Administration, 2009
Artistic Director, Vienna Art Week and Founder ART&IDEA

Robert Punkenhofer is founding director of ART&IDEA, CEO/ Chief Curator of Vienna Art Week and co-owner of Carl Suchy & Söhne. In his work he crosses the limits of art, architecture, design and fashion as well as international business and diplomacy. He is responsible for more than 100 exhibitions and special projects on 3 continents, amongst others the visionary Mur Island with Vito Acconci for Graz European Capital of Culture, Vienna Art Week, Austria´s participation at the World Fairs in Aichi, Japan, Zaragossa, Spain and Shanghai, China as well as Flow Festival, the first open space for science and culture in the Danube region. He worked as Director of the Austrian Design Foundation, the Creative Industry Office at Austria´s Foreign Trade Organization as well as guest curator at Apex Art in New York and Goethe Institut Barcelona. He served as a member of the International Advisory Council at Princeton University/ PLAS and was visiting professor at New York University.

Dorian Branea – Romanian Cultural Institute in New York

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Director, Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
President, European Union National Institutes for Culture, New York

Dorian Branea, cultural diplomat and author. Read English at the Western University of Timișoara, followed by graduate work in International Relations at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Negotiation at Oxford University’s Said Business School. Ph.D. in English and American Studies. Fellow of Central European University (2003-2004). Founding director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Warsaw (2006-2010) and director, between 2010 and 2018, of the Romanian Cultural Institute in London. President of EUNIC London (the association of EU cultural institutes, 2012-2014). From august 2018, director of Romanian Cultural Institute in New York and from 2021, President of EUNIC New York. Awarded the Order of Merit for Cultural Promotion in the rank of Knight by the President of Romania in 2018. Author of The United States of Romanians (Humanitas, 2016).

Timothy J. McClimon – NYU Adjunct Faculty

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Adjunct Faculty, Performing Arts Administration at NYU Steinhardt
President, The Celeste Group

Timothy J. McClimon is the principal consultant for The Celeste Group, which specializes in corporate social responsibility and nonprofit management strategies and programs. From 2006-2021, Tim was President of the American Express Foundation and Senior Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility, at the American Express Company where he led all of the company’s global responsibility, philanthropy, sustainability, and employee engagement programs. He is also the former Executive Director of the AT&T Foundation and Second Stage Theater, and practiced law with nonprofit organizations as clients. Tim is recognized as a subject-matter expert in corporate social responsibility, leadership development, nonprofit management, and arts administration through numerous publications, speeches, and media interviews. He is a Forbes magazine contributor on leadership and serves as an ESG Fellow at The Conference Board.