Jane Thompson

Jane Thompson brings together more than two decades of site experience with international-level research, policy work and capacity development initiatives in the cultural heritage sector. As a consultant to ICCROM, she has co-authored many milestones in World Heritage resources in recent years, including the 2015 Sustainable Development policy, the 2013 UNESCO Management manual and the 2011 Capacity Building Strategy. In 2014 she became Course Director for Heritage Management at the Bocconi University and was also awarded the first of several senior advisory roles to the Italian Ministry of Culture. In addition to her ongoing role leading the Herculaneum Conservation Project, she consults for World Heritage properties worldwide as founder and team leader of Instead Heritage.