LEON LEVY
Co-Founder

Leon Levy was not only a distinguished financier, but also a well-informed and generous patron of the arts. Archaeology benefited in a special way from his munificence. He supported many aspiring scholars of the arts and archaeology, as well as institutional projects, in these areas. The White-Levy Program for Archaeological Publications was one of his favorite undertakings. He was well aware of the importance of publishing the results of archaeological excavations. In its seven years, the White-Levy Program has enabled a hundred field archaeologists to prepare the publications of their digs. His numerous philanthropies will go on under the direction of his spouse, Shelby White, also President of the White-Levy Program, who has assured the Board that this Program will continue to be supported. Leon used to say, somewhat facetiously, the two loves of his life were making money and then giving it away. Countless recipients of his largesse can attest especially to the second.

SHELBY WHITE
Co-Founder

Shelby White is an author, collector and philanthropist. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and her M.A. from Columbia University. She serves on the board of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is also a member of the Visiting Committee of the Freer and Sackler Galleries and the Harvard Museum Visiting Committee. In addition, she sits on the boards of The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, The Bard Graduate Center, The Writers Room and The New York Botanical Garden.

Ms. White is chair of the White-Levy Program for Archaeological Publications. She and her late husband, Leon Levy, have been the sponsors of the excavations at the ancient Canaanite city of Ashkelon, Israel, directed by Lawrence Stager of Harvard University and operated continuously for 17 years.

Other activities funded by Ms. White and her husband include the Shelby White and Leon Levy Fellowship Program at the Institute of Fine Arts. With her husband, Ms. White established the New Initiative Program at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, and the Leon Levy Biogenetics Center at Rockefeller University.

Ms. White's financial articles have appeared in many American publications including The New York Times, Town and Country, Redbook and Forbes. Her book, What Every Woman Should Know About her Husband's Money, was published by Random House (1992, 1994). Ms. White is a director of Alliance Capital Money Market Funds.

PHILIP J. KING
Director

Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Boston College, Philip King is Past President of the American Schools of Oriental Research, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the Catholic Biblical Association of America. He served as a staff member of several excavations both in Israel and in Arab countries. Having published five books on Bible and Archaeology, the most recent, Life in Biblical Israel, he coauthored with Lawrence E. Stager of Harvard University.

ANNIE CAUBET
The Louvre

Curator at the Louvre Museum, and the Department Head of Ancient Near Eastern Antiquities, Annie Caubet is also Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, Ecole du Louvre. She has excavated sites in Syria (Ugarit), Cyprus (Salamis and Kition-Larnaca), Iran (Susa), Pakistan (Mehrgar), and Kuwait (Failaka). Among her distinctions are Chevalier de l'ordre national de Merite and Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. Annie Caubet has contributed papers and studies to several Excavation Reports and Dictionaries. She has authored four important articles on the archaeology of music in the ancient Orient.

DOLLY GOULANDRIS
President of the N. P. Goulandris Foundation
Museum of Cycladic Art

Born in London, Dolly Goulandris was brought up in England, Greece, and the United States. She attended Barnard College and Columbia University. In 1985, Dolly Goulandris founded the Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation, to which she donated the Collection of Cycladic and Ancient Greek Art. The Museum of Cycladic Art was established in 1986 in the heart of Athens as a privately run and funded institution. The Museum is managed by the N.P. Goulandris Foundation and Dolly Goulandris who acts as President of its Board of Trustees. The Museum of Cycladic Art has established itself as one of the best-known and most-appreciated among the world's "small" museums. This achievement is obviously, though not exclusively, due to the distinct character of its exhibits — the Museum's constant presence in the cultural life of Greece is the result of its continuous efforts to promote the study of Greek art through a series of exhibitions, publications and educational programs.

Dolly Goulandris has been accorded numerous honorary distinctions including: Life-member of the Athens Archaeological Society, Medal of the Order of Merit, Greece, Silver Award of the Academy of Athens, and Honorary Doctorate of the University of Athens.

JAMES H. OTTAWAY
Newspaper Editor

He is Senior Vice President of Dow Jones & Co., Inc. and President of its magazine group and a member of its Board of Directors. James Ottaway is also Chairman of Ottaway Newspapers, Inc., Campbell Hall, New York, the community newspaper subsidiary of Dow Jones & Co., Inc. Former Trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America, and Former Director of the World Wildlife Fund, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

LAWRENCE E. STAGER
Harvard University

Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel in the Departments of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Anthropology at Harvard University, Lawrence Stager is also Director of the Harvard Semitic Museum as well as the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon. He was Field Director of the Punic Project at Carthage in Tunisia, and at Idalion on Cyprus. Co-author with Philip King of Life in Biblical Israel, Professor Stager has published a large number articles on archaeology, anthropology, and ancient history. His archaeological research and writing focus on ancient Mediterranean cultures of Canaanites, Phoenicians, Philistines, and Israelites.

CHRISTOPHER HALLETT
University of California, Berkeley

Chris Hallett teaches Roman material culture in the Departments of History of Art and Classics at UC Berkeley. He specializes in Roman sculpture, and has recently published a book on Roman portraiture entitled The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC–AD 300. He is the recipient of a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (1995-96) and a Humboldt Fellowship (1997-98). He has participated in archaeological fieldwork in Israel , Turkey , and in Egypt . Since 1991 he has worked at NYU's excavations in Aphrodisias in SW Turkey , and he is currently preparing for publication the sculpture from the city's Bouleuterion (Council House).