Marianne Magnin
ABOUT MARIANNE
Marianne founded The Cornelius Arts Foundation (TCAF), a UK charity whose mission is to unleash the transformative power of art through R&D. Its areas of focus are education, innovation, sustainability and wellbeing. For the last four years, she has been steering the establishment and development of Art Identification Standard (AIS), an international consortium aiming at introducing a unique identifier for artworks, facilitated by decentralised technologies and benefiting all art stakeholders. This standard will be the cornerstone for ushering the art world into web3 and promoting fairer practices.
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A committed political activist, Marianne has sat for years on a number of Executive Committees for her British and French parties. She is currently the President of her French party abroad, spearheading activities across the eleven constituencies over the five continents. She has been involved in all election cycles at local, national and European levels and has been a candidate on a number of them, notably in 2017 when she was her French party's parliamentary nominee for the Northern Europe constituency.
She is the rapporteur on Culture for France Positive, a trans-partisan initiative - led by Jacques Attali, to analyse France challenges and elaborate policy proposals. She is a co-founder and President of Démocrates Sans Frontières, an association mobilizing French Abroad, Francophones and Francophiles towards developing and implementing solutions addressing the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Objectives (SDO). She is the Initiator and a co-founder of the Europe Cordiale Circle (EC), a bipartisan, cross-sectoral forum that engaged decision makers and leaders to foster thoughtful and informed debate towards a harmonious UK/EU relationship. She was the co-founder and President of Club Démocrate (UK), a group that promoted a strong relationship between the French and British communities with shared values of democracy, humanism and European identity.
Marianne leverages business experience and skills she has acquired throughout her extensive career, previously for large corporations such as PwC and RDS, honing her business acumen as an entrepreneur and board advisor at the crossing of art, mobilities and technology. She lectures and writes on the arts, philanthropy, business and politics, topics that intersect with matters of governance, sustainability, innovation and experiential economy as key drivers of change. She has produced and curated more than one hundred art events and acts as an adviser to artists and galleries. She is a published poet, translator and editor of poetry notably for Poetry International.
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Marianne pursued graduate studies at Harvard in negotiation and INSEAD in M&A and is a MIM graduate of KEDGE business school.​ She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA).
