Past Committee Member

Tim is Research Professor in Cultural Heritage, Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Deakin University. For the past 15 years he has been working on different aspects of cultural heritage governance in Asia.

Most of Tim’s working day is spent trying to figure out how cultural heritage features in issues like nationalism, post-conflict recovery, sustainability, postcolonial identities and urban development. He has published widely on these themes and conducted research projects in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, China, Malaysia, Singapore and more recently Qatar. His recent books include The Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia and Shanghai Expo: an international forum on the future of cities.

Tim has been a consultant for the World Bank, Getty Conservation Institute, World Monuments Fund and Japanese Team for Safeguarding Angkor, and been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, the Getty Conservation Institute and University College London, Qatar.

He is an Expert Member of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for Cultural Tourism and was the Editor of Historic Environment from the end of 2006 until the start of 2015.