Ann-Marie Richard is a valuation specialist, art historian, curator, author, and advisor. Prior to her full-time appointment as Director of Sotheby's Institute of Art-New York, she held the role of Executive Vice President at the art advisory firm Gurr Johns. She has extensive appraisal experience working on auction sales brokerage, trial preparation, expert witness support and mediation in concert with New York based law firms litigating cases related to art fraud, authenticity, equitable distribution, insurance, donations, loss, loans, leases, trusts and estates. Ann-Marie has lectured extensively on the topics of retrospective and emerging art markets, connoisseurship, collecting, conservation, provenance, and the related subtleties of appraising tangible assets i.e. fine art, design and archives. Ann-Marie has had speaking engagements at Columbia University, the American Association of Museums, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Law Conference, The Aspen Institute,  Wharton Business School, Tsinghua University (Beijing) and Ewha University (Seoul). Exhibitions she has curated have been favorably reviewed in national and international publications including  Art in America, ArtNews, The New York Times, Art-Times Russia, and Korea Times. She has been profiled in The Robb Report, Rapaport and BBART. Ann-Marie is the author of "Artist's Estates Tiers of Valuation and Complications" and the upcoming reference publication "The Valuation of Fine Art and Design: A Handbook for Professionals" (Lund Humphries, 2026).