Radcliffe, Julian
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Name (Latin)
Radcliffe, Julian
Date of birth
1948
Field of activity
Art thefts
Occupation
Authors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Houpt, Simon. Museum of the missing, 2006:title page (foreword by Julian Radcliffe) page 4 of jacket (Julian Radcliffe is the chairman of the London-based Art Loss Register, an organization that assists in art recovery around the world. He has helped governments, private organizations, and individuals in the recovery of artwork worth over $100 million. A member of the Order of the British Empire, Radcliffe has written extensively on the subject of art recovery and theft prevention)
- Julian Radcliffe; Julian Radcliffe graduated with an MA from Oxford in Politics and Economics and joined Hogg Robinson as a Lloyd's insurance broker in 1970; he started Investment Insurance as the leading political risk broker in 1972 and still acts as an expert on major political risk claims such as Cuba, Indonesia, Russia and South America; he founded Control Risks in 1976 to specialise in international risk management including kidnap negotiations and became a Director of Hogg Group Plc, a leading Lloyd's broker; he initiated the Art Loss Register in 1990 as an initiative for the Insurance industry and Art trade to reduce the theft of and trade in stolen art and became the majority shareholder in 2004; he is also Chairman of The Equipment Register which undertakes the same task for stolen construction equipment; he served as a Colonel in the Ministry of Defence and was awarded the OBE in 1999 and the QVRM in 2004; he wrote the forward to "Stolen" published by Madison Press Books in 2008 and has contributed articles such as Ethical Issues--The Art Trade and Stolen Art, Under Duress--Art and Extortion, Attitudes to Art Crime--The Romantic versus the Realist; he collects early English Watercolours and Old Master drawings ( (The Art Business Conference, via WWW, November 9, 2016) )