Gail Dexter Lord

Gail Dexter Lord is one of the world’s foremost museum, gallery and cultural planners. Her company, the Toronto-based Lord Cultural Resources, with offices in New York, Paris, Mumbai and Beijing, is the world’s largest professional practice dedicated to creating cultural capital; it can point with pride to more than 2,000 successfully completed projects in 50 countries on six continents. Her clients include the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Ottawa’s National Holocaust Museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, just to name a few.

She is an art critic, feature writer, frequent commentator, public speaker and the co-author of several important books in her field, including Cities, Museums, and Soft Power. In 2014, she was appointed Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France for her contributions to arts and culture.