ARCHAEOS

Current Officers and Board Members:

David Gimbel
Dr. David Nelson Gimbel is the founder and Director of Archaeos, Inc., a non-profit organization in New York City dedicated to cultural heritage and to archaeological and anthropological research and education.

Most recently, he served as Special Advisor to the Ambassador of Spain to UNESCO on the NUNC initiative—a series of dialogues that explore the role of the sciences and humanities in setting goals for the human and biospheric future.

He served as the Director of the Archaeos Survey Project at Vijayanagara, India and as Co-Director of The Iraq War & Archaeology, Documentation and Information Project. He also directed a joint excavation with the University of Vienna at Tell Arbid, Syria and was a lecturer at the University of Vienna in 1999-2000.

Following the 2003 Iraq War, he held the position of Associate Director and the Cultural Information Manager for the Getty Conservation Institute & World Monuments Fund Iraq Cultural Heritage Conservation Initiative.

His areas of applied research and expertise include: laws, conventions, strategies, and policy building for tangible and intangible culture; the implementation of cultural resource management policies for built heritage; the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict.

He has lectured extensively about the effects of war on cultural heritage to numerous groups and organizations, including NATO and The Institute for Human and Social Sciences of the National Defense Academy, Vienna (Austria).

He is a former Research Associate at the Columbia University Center for Buddhist Studies (Department of Religious Studies at Columbia University), was a Research Fellow at the American Institute of Indian Studies (New Delhi), a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, and a postgraduate student at Columbia University.

He received his doctorate (D.Phil.) from the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford (UK); his M.A. degree in Art History and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; his B.A. degree in English Literature and Spanish from Wesleyan University.

He also currently sits on the Board of Directors of Deep Dish Television Network, New York City.

Sameer Padania
Sameer Padania is a London-based consultant with a background in film, new media and international development. For the last three years, he worked for the human rights organisation WITNESS in New York, running the Hub, a campaigning human rights video website, prior to which he worked at Panos London for six years to support and strengthen radio and online journalism in the developing world.

He has published policy reports about the internet's impact both on British public interest media and on local radio and journalism in Africa, and wrote for UK film magazine Kamera. He is a graduate of St John's College, Oxford, and blogs periodically at blog.sameerpadania.com.

Ian Stell
Entrepreneur and industrial designer who developed two successful ventures in the "NOLITA" area of lower Manhattan with his two companies, The Mott Group Limited and Orchard Street Associates. He holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Carter Burden III
Founder and CEO of Logicworks Corporation (formerly Digital Telemedia, Inc.), an enterprise-level managed hosting and services provider in New York City. He is also a Managing Member of Darkstar Capital Group.

Frank Copsidas
Founder and CEO of Intrigue Group, Inc., Radio 2000, Jesscom, Inc., and Geronimo Music LLC.

José Antonio Alcayaga III
José Antonio Alcayaga III is a graphic designer and web developer. He currently holds a position as Interaction Designer at Yale New Haven Health System, Center for Healthcare Solutions.

José is a member of the Euzko-Etxea of New York and the Society of Basque Studies in America. His areas of focus include Basque language and culture, Basque Diaspora and the use of the internet to create community. He has a passion for using social networking to connect and educate people about the Basque culture. José is the organizer of the first Basque Language & Culture Meetup in New York City. He is the founder of 'Alcayagas del Mundo/Alcayagas of the World', a Facebook group created to unite the greater Alcayaga family with over 1,100 members.

José was a surveyor for the Archaeos Survey Project at Vijayanagara, India. He received his BFA degree in Computer Graphics and Interactive Media from the Pratt Institute.

Advisory Board:

Benjamin de Haan
Entrepreneur, owner and partner of Marc Newson Ltd.: London, England.

Andrew Leung
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. An archaeologist, an art historian, and an architect, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and his MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.