Rizwan Ahmad

Rizwan is a passionate and experienced curator and researcher with over 15 years experience working on cultural, historical and archaeological projects in the Middle East. As Barker Langham’s Head of Research he leads a global research team, overseeing and assuring the quality of research methodologies, processes and outputs.

Rizwan has worked as a curator and overseen historical research for major international museums in the Gulf region, including the Oman Across Ages Museum, National Museum of Qatar, Al Shindagha Museums Dubai and several others. Rizwan previously worked as a curator at the British Museum on the Zayed National Museum project and on archaeological projects with the British Museum in Sudan. He led the historic objects workstream for the inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale within the curatorial and content team, and is proud to be acting as a Lead Curator – Historic Objects for this new edition.