Bruce W. Ferguson has been an art curator, critic and academic administrator and has extensive management experience in both arts and academic organizations. At present he is Vice Chairman of LB Media in New York, a print and online publishing company. He has been the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University in Cairo, Egypt and served as the Dean of the School of Arts at Columbia University as well as President and Executive Director of the New York Academy of Art. He has curated exhibitions for institutions from the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. He also organized exhibitions within the international biennales of Sao Paulo, Sydney, Venice and Istanbul. Ferguson was the founding director and curator of Site Santa Fe in New Mexico where he articulated a vision for an international art biennial that now has a successful 20-year history and is central to the city's identity.