A Co-Founder of the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative, Sascha Priewe is the Director of Collections & Public Programs at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. Previously, Sascha was the Associate Vice President, Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships, and prior to that Managing Director – Culture Centres at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Before joining the ROM, he was the Curator of Chinese and Korean collections at the British Museum and served as a diplomat in the German Foreign Office. With a PhD in archaeology from the University of Oxford, his research has focused on Chinese art and archaeology, Korean art, museum studies and cultural diplomacy.

Sascha is currently cross-appointed as an Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Toronto, and is an Affiliated Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. He is also a Senior Fellow of Massey College and was a 2019-21 Research Fellow of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy.

He also serves as the Vice President of ICOM Canada, on the council of the Ontario Museum Association, and is the inaugural chairperson of the Global Leadership Council of the Idaho Museum of International Diaspora. 

For more on Sascha's previous publications and conference participation: https://agakhanmuseum.academia.edu/SaschaPriewe