Author - Bonnie Burnham

Bonnie Burnham is the President and Founder of the Cultural Heritage Finance Alliance (CHiFA) President Emerita of World Monuments Fund (WMF). She led WMF’s international historic preservation work from 1985 through her retirement in November 2015. Previously she served from 1975 to 1985 as Executive Director of the International Foundation for Art Research. Ms. Burnham is an expert in the protection and preservation of cultural heritage. She holds degrees in the history of art from the University of Florida and the Université de Paris- Sorbonne. Ms. Burnham is the author of numerous articles and three books on the protection of cultural property, and lectures widely.

Ms. Burnham has been honored as a Chevalier of the French Order of Arts and Letters, is a Distinguished Alumna of the College of Fine Arts of the University of Florida, and is the first recipient of its Beinecke-Reeves Distinguished Achievement Award in Historic Preservation.
She has received the Founders Award for Civic Leadership from Partners for Livable Communities and the Pillars of New York Award of the Preservation League of New York State.

She holds an honorary doctorate from Florida Southern College, and is a fellow of US-ICOMOS.

She has served on the boards of the National Institute of Conservation, the Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation, and the US National Commission for UNESCO. She is currently on the board of the New York Studio and the Board of Advocates.