Partner & Executive Officer
Kirstin Sechler acted as director of the World Monuments Watch endangered sites program of the World Monuments Fund until February 2001. During this tenure Ms. Sechler coordinated nomination solicitation, selection, publicity, and project implementation activities related to the biennial List of 100 Most Endangered Sites, including development of project selection criteria, review of project proposals and field reports, oversight of institutional relationships with professional advisors and the program's founding financial sponsor, the American Express Company. The World Monuments Watch disbursed more than $7 million in grant funding for emergency conservation and planning projects since 1996 under her direction. Ms. Sechler holds a professional degree in Architecture with a minor in Architectural History from Pennsylvania State University.