Meet the Author
Jean-François Charnier
Jean-François Charnier is a national general heritage and art curator. He graduated in Art History and Archaeology from the Ecole du Louvre and in Anthropology from Université Paris X-Nanterre. His first role was in the field of preventive archaeology and heritage coordination. He became in 2000 director of department in the project for the Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean (MUCEM). After a mission at the Ministry of Culture, he joined in 2008 Agence France-Muséums to coordinate the expertise of French national museums including the Louvre, Pompidou Centre, Orsay etc. for the creation of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. He was appointed Scientific Director of Agence France-Muséums in 2013: he created the contents of the museum and led the teams responsible for the museography, art acquisitions, programming, and publications of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, which opened in November 2017. He then joined Afalula Agency, the body created to develop AlUla cultural destination in Saudi Arabia, in August 2018 as Scientific Director. He has proposed and developed a series of archaeological missions, a network of 8 museums called Constellation, and several initiatives in the field of art creation like art residencies, contemporary art museum and several art commissions. All of these programs are currently in development.
