Primary Job Title Director and CEO Primary Organization 
Guggenheim Museum
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Female
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Dr. Mariët Westermann is the Director and CEO of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, directing its flagship museum in New York, overseeing the Foundation and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and providing collaborative leadership at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Westermann most recently led
NYU Abu Dhabi, a degree-granting campus of NYU, as Vice Chancellor, having been the institution’s founding Provost from 2007 to 2010. She has also served as Executive Vice President of the Mellon Foundation, Director of NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, Associate Director at the Clark Art Institute, and a faculty member at Rutgers University. She earned a BA at Williams College and an MA and PhD at the Institute of Fine Arts. Westermann publishes widely on Netherlandish painting, the anthropology of art, museums, and higher education. She serves on the boards of ALIPH, the Rijksmuseum, and the American Academy in Rome and chairs the Scholar Rescue Fund of the Institute of International Education.
