Ute Wartenberg

Ute Wartenberg (born 1963) is a prominent numismatist, the first woman president and executive director of the American Numismatic Society, a research numismatic research institution founded in 1858. She obtained her PhD in Papyrology and Classical Literature from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, and later taught there.^[3][4] After two decades as ANS Executive Director, she took on a research curator role before being elected as the ANS President.

Career[]

From 1991 to 1998, Wartenberg was the Curator of Greek Coins at the British Museum in London. She then served as a research curator and eventually as executive director of the American Numismatics Society. In 2000, she oversaw a controversial budget-cutting and reorganization to reduce the society's deficit, and a move of the society facilities to a new location in the Manhattan Financial District.^[5]

In 2002, Wartenberg was appointed to the Citizens Commemorative Coin Advisory Committee of the U.S. Mint.^[6]

In 2017, Wartenberg was appointed on the Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force committee of the Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation.^[7]

Wartenberg serves as an adjunct professor of Classics at Columbia University, and as the curator of the Amastris Collection, a private collection of Greek coins.^[8]

Wartenberg was Chairperson of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee from 2003 to 2007. Since 2008, she has been a Trustee of the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial in New Hampshire.^[9]

She was a Trustee, President and CEO of the Annie Tinker Association for Women from 2009-18. Wartenberg has served on the Committee of the International Numismatic Council since 2015. In 2019 she became a member and Chairperson of ICOM International Committee for Money and Banking Museums.^[4]

Wartenberg has been interviewed and quoted in numerous publications and news stories.^{[10][11][12][13]}

Research[]

Wartenberg has published widely in a range research journals and numismatic publications.

Personal life[]

She is married to Jonathan Kagan, who also studied Classics at Oxford.^[3]

Honors[]

Wartenberg was elected as Numismatic Ambassador in 2002. She was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2008. She was awarded the honorary award of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Geldgeschichte in Germany in 2015. In 2017 she was a Visiting Professor of the City of Wrocław, Poland.^[4]

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