Professor Conte-Helm is a long-established Lecturer of The Arts Society with a

BA in History of Art and an MA in Asian Art. She has most recently served as

Executive Director of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group, as Visiting Professor at

Northumbria University, and as a Member of the Board of Governors of the

University for the Creative Arts. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

She was Director General of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation from

1999-2011 and has held senior academic positions at various UK universities.

She is widely published and has lectured throughout the UK and abroad. She is

also an experienced cruise speaker and a Resident Historian with Viking

Cruises, lecturing on many aspects of Asian Art and East-West Encounters. She

was awarded an OBE in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to UK-

Japan educational and cultural relations, and the Order of the Rising Sun,

Gold Rays with Rosette by the Government of Japan in 2019.

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