Elizabeth Rader has extensive experience in building relationships and business connections in support of artistic and international cultural institutions such as: Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and National Institute of Fine Arts (IMBA), Holland’s Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, The British Museum and Cultural Ministries in Latin America. Most recently she worked for the London based Art Loss Register as their Development Director for the Americas. Responsible for managing clients in the American, Canadian and Latin American markets, Elizabeth increased auction house business by over 100%, and executed strategies to develop relationships with private collectors and the trade to include auction houses, dealers, appraisers, insurers, museums, and art fair organizers at TEFAF and Art Basel, Miami. Elizabeth is USPAP compliant.
She completed her undergraduate degree in Art History at Florida State University and went on to obtained an MPhil in Antiquities from the University of Glasgow, Christie’s Education, London. Her PhD in the History of Art and Theory was conferred by the University of Essex in 2012, with a concentration on the art and imagery from Colonial Latin America and Habsburg Spain.