Harvard and Oxford educated, Roxane Zand began a career in the arts at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts, subsequently moving to the UK to work in the non-profit arts sector. She has served a variety of institutions such as the British Museum and Asia House, joining Sotheby’s in 2006 to lead its presence in the Middle East & Gulf. In March 2020 she left Sotheby’s as Senior Director and Deputy Chairman to start her own consultancy. She continues to sit on a number of MENA Boards, AFAC, and advises the non-profit sector. Her most recent book was Geometry and Art in the Modern Middle East. She was appointed a Representative Deputy Lord Lieutenant (DL) by Her Majesty the Queen for her services to Middle Eastern art. She is also a charity auctioneer, and Arts Editor for the Encyclopoedia Islamica. Roxane Zand is the gallery representative for the gallery sector Focus: The Collectors Salon, Abu Dhabi Art 2024. Instagram: @roxzand

Ben Houston brings nearly two decades of expertise in the rare book trade to his role as Sales Director at Peter Harrington, where he has played a key role in the growth of the business, including the opening of its Dover Street flagship, and building a growing presence in international rare book and arts fairs. A passionate generalist, Ben enjoys engaging with an array of subjects, and he finds great fulfilment in collaborating with collectors across diverse fields—from continental philosophy to the evolving influence of technology on cultural dissemination.

Morad Montazami (France, 1981) is an art historian, publisher and curator. After working at the Tate Modern (London) between 2014 and 2019 as a curator for the Middle East and North Africa, he developed the publishing and curatorial platform Zamân Books & Curating, exploring Arab, African and Asian modernities. He has written numerous essays on artists such as Zineb Sedira, Walid Raad, Latif Al Ani, Faouzi Laatiris, Michael Rakowitz, Mehdi Moutashar, Behjat Sadr... and curated exhibitions including Baghdad Mon Amour, Institut des cultures d’Islam (Paris, 2018); Monaco-Alexandria: The Great Detour. World-capitals and Cosmopolitan Surrealism, Nouveau musée national de Monaco (2021-2022); Casablanca Art School. Platforms and Patterns for a Postcolonial Avant-Garde, Tate St-Ives/Sharjah Art Foundation/Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2023-2024

Morad Montazami, director of Zamân Books & Curating, and currently resident of the Villa Medicis in Rome (Italy) is the curator for Beyond Emerging Artists, Abu Dhabi Art 2023

Salomé Zelic had already conducted research on Contemporary Art and the South Asian Art Market before joining Christie’s Paris in 2014, where she worked in the Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art department. During this time, she collaborated with foundations and experts on Asian artists connected to Europe, particularly Paris. After three years in Paris, she moved to Christie’s New York, joining the South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art department as a specialist. Throughout her time at Christie’s, and continuing after she left, she worked closely with artists such as Patrick Rimoux, Edgar Sarin, and Nikhil Chopra, and contributed to exhibitions, including Voir Paris: Une Aventure Chinoise in April 2017. In 2020, she curated the exhibition Zao Wou-Ki and Joan Miró: Aesthetic Affinities with Galerie Mayoral.

In 2021, Salomé joined Galleria Continua, where she supported the gallery's expansion into Paris and its opening in Dubai in November of that year. As Associate Director, she is responsible for international commercial development and works closely with artists such as Sislej Xhafa and Nikhil Chopra as an artist liaison.