Lisa Ackerman

Lisa Ackerman currently serves as Executive Director of Columbus Citizens Foundation, an organization devoted to Italian American heritage. Lisa served as Interim CEO of World Monuments Fund in 2018 and 2019. At WMF she previously served from 2007 to 2018 as Executive Vice President, developing international collaborative projects in heritage conservation. During that time, she oversaw approximately 100 projects in 60 countries. Through her teaching at Pratt, she is able to offer students an intimate view of work in the field, as well as explain the framework established by UNESCO, ICOMOS, and other intergovernmental agencies in carrying out these activities.  She is currently chair of Historic House Trust of NYC and of New York Preservation Archive Project.  She is a board member of the Alabama African American Civil Rights Sites Consortium and the American Society of Overseas Research.

B.A. in Art History and Italian, Middlebury College
M.B.A. in Marketing, New York University Stern School of Business
M.S. in Historic Preservation, Pratt Institute

“The Evolution of Heritage Management: Thinking Beyond Site Boundaries and Buffer Zones,” Public Archaeology , Vol. 13 Nos 1–3, 2014, 113–22
“The State of Syria.” Monumentum. Spring 2014
“Cleaning Up A Historic Landscape.” Historic House Trust Newsletter . Volume 5, Number 4, Fall 2010.
“Babylon on Board.” Monumentum. World Monuments Fund Britain. Autumn 2009.
“Thinking Radically in Brick: Alfred Tredway White’s Vision for Cities.” The Social Vision of Alfred T. White .
Wendy Walker, Editor. Proteotypes, 2009.Italian Court Returns Artifacts to Ecuador,” Stolen Art Alert , v. 5, n. 1, January 1984. (reprinted in Journal of Field Archaeology , v.11, 1984.)
“Modern Museology: 108,000 images per disk,” Art Research News, v. 2, n. 4, 1983.
“Bytes of Art,” Art Research News, v. 2, n. 2/3, 1983.