Nominators

Advisory Board

The Prix Pictet Advisory Board is a distinguished group of individuals who act as informal and occasional advisers to the Prix Pictet Executive.

The nominators for the Prix Pictet are a group of over 300 leading experts in the visual arts from around the world including directors of major museums and galleries as well as journalists and critics. They lead the global search for images of high artistic quality and narrative power and fit the theme of each cycle of the prize.

Advisory Board for the Prix Pictet

  • Ivan Pictet (Chair)

    Senior Managing Partner, Pictet Group, 2005–10

  • Lionel Barber

    Editor, Financial Times, 2005–20
    Trustee, Carnegie Foundation of New York

  • Sir Peter Bazalgette

    Chair, ITV, 2016–22
    Chair, Arts Council England, 2013–17

  • Marcus Brauchli

    Managing Editor, the Wall Street Journal 2007–08
    Executive Editor, the Washington Post, 2008–12

  • Christopher Brown

    Director, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1998–2014

  • Melanie Clore

    Co-Founder, Clore Wyndham Fine Art, London, Co-Chair, Sotheby’s Europe, 2011–16

  • Lady Elena Ochoa Foster

    Founder and CEO, Ivorypress, Madrid, London

  • Francis Hodgson

    Professor in the Culture of Photography, University of Brighton, UK

  • Maja Hoffmann

    Founder and President, LUMA Foundation, Zurich

  • Baroness Helena Kennedy, KC

    Principal, Mansfield College,
    University of Oxford, 2011–18

  • Henry Kim

    Director and CEO, The Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, 2012–20
    Associate Vice Provost and Director, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University

  • Sir David King

    Founder and Chair, Climate Crisis Advisory Group

  • Fatima Maleki

    UK-based collector

  • Richard Misrach

    Berkeley, California-based photographer

  • Lady Alison Myners

    Chair, Royal Academy Trust, London

  • Sandy Nairne CBE

    Director, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2002–15

  • Fumio Nanjo

    Director, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2006–19

  • Michael Nyman CBE

    UK-based composer and artist

  • Lord Palumbo

    Chair, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1989-1994

  • Nigel Pleming, KC

    Barrister

  • Thaddaeus Ropac

    Founder, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Salzburg, London, Seoul

  • Ralph Rugoff, OBE

    Director, Hayward Gallery, London

  • Sir Charles Saumarez Smith, CBE

    Secretary and Chief Executive, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2007–18

  • Olga Sviblova

    Founding Director, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

  • Sir John Tusa

    Co-Chair, European Union Youth Orchestra Chair, University of the Arts, London, 2007–13

  • Roxane Zand

    Founder, ZandFineArts, London Deputy Chair, Sotheby’s Middle East, 2006–20

  • Slavoj Žižek

    International Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London

  • Stephen Barber

    Founder, Prix Pictet

  • Isabelle von Ribbentrop

    Creative Advisor, Prix Pictet