Dr Nicholas Stanley-Price has taken up his position as Director-General of ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) in Rome as of 1st August 2000.

Dr Stanley-Price is no stranger to ICCROM, having been a staff member there in the 1980’s while co-ordinating the annual course on Scientific Principles of Conservation. Since then, he continued his interests in professional conservation education while on the staff of the Getty Conservation Institute (1987-1995) and, for the last two years, as a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology of University College London. He has specialised in the conservation of archaeological sites, and has organised training courses, field projects and consultancy missions in various countries including Argentina, Chile, China, Cyprus, Egypt, Lebanon, Mexico, the Philippines and Turkey.

He founded and edited the quarterly journal “Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites” and has published a number of books including “Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage” (Getty Conservation Institute 1996, co-edited with Mansfield Kirby Talley, Jr. and Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro).