Hammad Nasar is a curator, gallerist and writer based in London. He is co-founder of the arts organisation Green Cardamom, and of the arts advisory firm, Asal Partners. He was a Fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme for 2006-7 and Arts Director for the UK’s Festival of Muslim Cultures (2006-07). He has lectured on contemporary art from Pakistan at museums and universities internationally including London's V&A, SOAS and Tate Britain; Yale University in the US and the National College of Art in Lahore. In his previous careers Hammad was an investment banker and strategy consultant.

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Dr. Anthony Downey is the Programme Director on the M.A. in Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s Institute (London). He holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College, sits on the editorial board of Third Text , and a London correspondent for Flash Art International . He is also an art advisor for Meridien Art Partners and currently writing a book on Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics (forthcoming 2009) He has published essays, criticism and interviews in BOMB Magazine (New York), Wasafiri, New York Arts Magazine, Art Review, Journal of Visual Culture, Pluk, Untitled, Bridge Magazine (Chicago), Contemporary, Circa, Art and Architecture Journal, Contemporary Visual Arts, The Cuirt Journal, Skylines, Wanderlust and Upstart.

Ludovic Bois was born in Paris and raised in London. He completed his BA honours in London and an MBA in Mexico and Chicago. Prior to starting the Chinese Contemporary Gallery in London, New York and Beijing, Ludovic worked in commodities with Merrill Lynch and then moved to capital markets with Citibank in their Investment management group as the head of their derivative desk. Later, he joined Nomura bank as a director advising Supranational and central bank portfolio managers. In 1996, Ludovic opened with Julia Colman the first western gallery dedicated exclusively to Chinese Contemporary art. Chinese Contemporary gallery was the first gallery to give solo shows to artist like Yue Minjun, Wang Qingsong, Yang Shaobin and many others. Ludovic has worked with Institutions throughout the world in curating exhibitions. In 2007, he and his partner facilitated the first solo exhibition in a European museum (Finland ) for artist Zhang Xiaogang.