Peter Herdrich is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cultural Capital Group, LLC. Expertise is derived from Peter’s practice as a leader in worldwide media, cultural affairs, and educational institutions, harnessing communications and business and their unparalleled capacity to create positive outcomes for corporate, notfor-profit, education and government clients. His most recent project is as co-Principal Investigator on a Mellon Foundation-funded study grant on the creation of the Digital Library of the Middle East. For eight years, he served at the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), the world’s largest archaeological organization and the learned society for the academic discipline, first as a Board member and then as Chief Executive Officer. He was also Publisher of the AIA’s bimonthly periodical, Archaeology, the leading magazine in the field.
Combining his experience across the editorial and management sides of media and his leadership in cultural heritage initiatives around the world, he is the Cofounder of The Antiquities Coalition, a leading international NGO, where the mission is to stop the looting and illicit trade in cultural heritage property and fight against the organized criminals who destroy our shared history.