Karen Brown
Karen is currently Chair of the International Committee of Museology (ICOFOM) (2022-27). She is Professor of Art History at the University of St Andrews specialising in Museum and Heritage Studies. Her publications include: Brown, Karen, Alissandra Cummins and Ana Sol González Rueda, eds (2022), Communities and Museums in the Twenty-First Century: Shared Histories and Climate Action. Routledge; Brown, Karen, ed. (2019), ‘Museums and Local Development’, Museum International. Routledge; Brown, Karen, Peter Davis & Luís Raposo, eds (2019), On Community and Sustainable Communities. Lisbon.
Karen began her career as a university Curator of Art and has recently coordinated several large international projects selected for funding by the European Commission and other bodies, including Shared Island Stories (2022-2027), and EU-LAC Museums (2016-2021).