Jay Levenson has served as the Director of the International Program since 1996, managing a variety of initiatives, including Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP), the Museum’s global research project. Prior to that he was Deputy Director for Program Administration at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He has served as guest curator for major exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art and the National Museum of Asian Art of the Smithsonian Institution. A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, and awarded a PhD in art history by the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, he has held positions both as a curator and museum administrator, and as an attorney.