Dr. Clare Mc Andrew is an economist, investment analyst and published author. Clare completed her PhD in economics at Trinity College Dublin in 2001, where she also lectured and taught economics for four years. Clare then spent three years as the chief economist at Kusin & Company, a boutique investment banking firm in Dallas, Texas. During her time at Kusin, Clare researched and published the book entitled The Modern and Contemporary Art Market: A Study of the Global Resale Market. She has published several papers in academic journals on arts and economics, and previously wrote for the Financial Times and other US publications.

Since her return to Ireland in February 2005, Clare worked as the editor of The Investor magazine. She left the magazine in May 2006, when she was commissioned to write a book entitled The Art Economy: An Investor’s Guide to the Art Market, which was published in 2007. During this time Clare also pursued a portfolio career in the media including hosting Invest on City Channel, editing Who’s Who in Irish Business and Wealth magazine and writing and presenting on several other Irish and international media on economic and investment issues..

Clare founded her own company, Arts Economics, in 2005, which specializes in research and consulting services in the arts, media, and finance..

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Educated as an economist & developmental theorist at LSE & St. Catherine’s College [University of Oxford], Tuli returned to India in 1995 after 25 years in the West, devoting his endeavors towards his vision to build a new holistic infrastructure for the Indian arts, culture & its education, which was also financially self-sufficient and built by a unique creative process. The steps taken towards this goal have been path breaking and varied but collectively focusing upon the need to cohere the intellectual, aesthetic and economic dimensions of development.   

Established in 2000 as a pioneering arts institution in India, Osian’s is at the heart of Neville Tuli’s vision of creating a new infrastructure and model for the Indian arts and culture, whereby a merit-conscious and financially self-sufficient infrastructure is put in place, independent of traditional patronage systems but grounded in its own ability to be a part of India’s developmental framework. With its Auction House, The Osian’s Art Fund & Wealth Management Services for Art Division (WMAS), the Centre for Archiving, Research & Documentation (CARD) and the Film House, Osian’s has established itself at the highest international standards as a unique cultural institution.

The Osian’s Auction House and WMAS are generating the finance to support and subsidize the Archive and Film House which is intensively occupied with documenting, preserving and disseminating the Indian and Asian artistic and cinematic heritage while creating knowledge bases for the study of these subjects.

The Osian’s Archive spanning five major areas is collectively the world’s most comprehensive textual and visual Archive focusing on C18-20th Engravings, Lithography & Maps on India, C19th British-India photography, Modern and Contemporary Indian Art, the popular arts [including Advertising, Toys, Puppets, Playing Cards, Political Propaganda, Crafts] and the publicity material and memorabilia of World Cinema.

Recently the Collection has taken major strides into building a significant presence in the art of the Indian miniature and the Nepali & Tibetan Thangka. Further, eclectic tangents are being taken into areas such as Japanese Samurai Armour and Dolls (Ningyo) of the C18-19th century, African Tribal masks, Polish Film Posters, among many other foci of the Osian’s Archive & Library Collection.

With Osian’s acquisition of Cinefan, the Asian Film Festival and Cinemaya, the Asian Film Journal, along with the merger of Aruna Vasudev’s team of experts into Osian’s under the umbrella of the Film House, the cinematic infrastructural base has widened significantly, complementing our vast archives. The next three years will see an intensive growth in this area of work as Osian’s moves into building The Osianama (previously called ‘Minerva’ cinema), a unique integrated Arts & Cinema Resource & entertainment Centre-cum-Museum. The institutional steps required for Osian’s to enter the arena of film financing and production are also moving forward rapidly.

Elroy Dimson is the BGI Professor of Investment Management and a Faculty Governor of London Business School. Dr Dimson has held visiting positions at the Bank of England and at the Universities of Chicago and California (Berkeley). His research covers risk analysis, performance measurement, asset allocation, portfolio strategy and financial market history. With Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton, he wrote ‘Triumph of the Optimists’ (Princeton University Press, 2002), which presents and analyses over 100 years of stock market performance in each of 16 countries. In the US their research won the Roger Murray prize from the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance. With Dr Shanta Acharya he authored 'Endowment Asset Management' (Oxford University Press, 2007), a study of the investment strategies followed by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and by their constituent colleges. Dr Dimson has served on the boards of several investment organizations, pension funds and charitable endowments.

Anders Petterson is a leading expert on art market research, with particular focus on the Western contemporary art markets, as well as Emerging Contemporary art markets in India, China, Russia and Middle-East. He is the Founder and Managing Director of ArtTactic.com, a web-based London-based art market research company set up in 2001. Prior to starting up ArtTactic, he worked in the capital markets division of JP Morgan in London. Anders Petterson is currently lecturing on art markets and art as an asset class at Sotheby's Institute in London and Singapore. He is a frequent commentator on the art market for Bloomberg TV, CNN and Wall Street Journal.