Louise T Blouin MacBain is CEO and President of LTB Group of Companies - a global media business with a commitment to the arts and culture. Group publications include Art + Auction, Modern Painters and Culture and Travel and the Group produces around 50 magazines and 130 titles in total each year. The website www.artinfo.com intended to be the premier online destination for the arts is the LTB Group’s latest creation.

Mrs MacBain is also the Chairman and Founder of the Louise T Blouin Foundation. The Foundation reflects Mrs MacBain’s hopes and dreams through its work across the world to promote culture and creativity and their role in making societies stronger. Recent Foundation projects include an investment in cultural exchange projects between China, the Middle East and the West, an OECD research initiative measuring cultural investment across the world and the development of an Institute in Notting Hill, London.

Previous to setting up the LTB Group, she co-founded Trader Classified Media. Over 15 years as Chairman and Operational CEO she turned around a business with more than 400 publications (9 million readers per week) 80 companies and, with her management team, led over 5,000 employees and 60 internet sites in 20 countries. She relinquished her interest in Trader to develop the LTB Group. She holds a number of memberships in international business and art organisations, including:

• Board of the Cendant Corporation
• Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
• Board Member of the Bard Centre in New York
• Honorary Member of the Chairman’s Council at the Whitney Museum, New York
• Member of the International Council of the Tate Museum, London
• International Committee of Les Arts Decoratifs in Paris
• Member of Le Club international des Amis du Centre Pompidoude