Fionnuala Croke, Director of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, confirms for conference

We are delighted to announce that Fionnuala Croke, Director of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at the conference in July.

Since joining the Chester Beatty Library, she has worked on developing a new strategy for the Library, and has sought to re-position its role within the museum sector. Increasingly the CBL is engaging with new audiences both domestically and overseas through its exhibitions and multicultural programmes.

Fionnuala has published on a wide range of art-related subjects and has organised and curated numerous exhibitions, most recently ‘Chester Beatty’s A to Z: from Amulet to Zodiac’.

She received a BA with honours in History of Art & Archaeology from University College Dublin (UCD), a research MA from UCD and an International Executive MBA from the Smurfit Business School. She also attended the Getty Museum Leadership Institute in Los Angeles. Prior to her appointment to the CBL, she was Keeper & Head of Collections at the National Gallery of Ireland. She is an Adjunct Professor in UCD in the School of Art History & Cultural Policy and is Chair of the Asia Europe Museum Network.