Strategic Advisory & Cultural Diplomacy 

Dr. Emily L. Spratt is a strategic advisor in the art, cultural heritage and preservation management, and emerging technology sectors with executive training from the Harvard Business School. Appointed in 2024, Dr. Spratt is an official U.S. Speaker for the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Recently, she was an expert delegate for the Global Dialogue on AI at the UN in Geneva and was an expert on AI and cultural heritage for the G20 Summit in Johannesburg. In 2019, she was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron to be the curator of the Global Forum on AI for Humanity in Paris. At present, she is on the board-of-trustees steering committee for digital technologies at the Pratt Institute, and is on the advisory boards of See.Me and the Artificial Intelligence Finance Institute in New York, and the tech accelerator Exponential Impact in Colorado Springs (where she was on the board of directors from 2020–2024). 

Dr. Spratt has provided advisory for the Toronto-based tech think tank, ApoSys Technologies, which develops emerging computer vision-based technologies for a range of industrial applications. Previously, she was the strategic advisor for the New York- and Berlin-based company Artory (now Winston Artory with a $41 million valuation since the 2025 merger), and helped pivot the company into a blockchain-enabled art market firm, bringing the company to its Series B funding round. Dr. Spratt has also provided strategic advisory for the New Jersey-based art analytics company Artrendex in its formative stage, has advised the Berlin-based AI music company Aitokaiku, and has been a consultant to numerous other art-tech and creative technology companies.  

One of Dr. Spratt's most interesting projects to date was in academia where she was asked to conceptualize and structure a potential Department of Art and Artificial Intelligence for the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey) per the request of the deans. For this project she created a board of advisors, the curriculum for the program, and also the core undergraduate and graduate course requirement, which she taught.

Dr. Spratt also specializes in the ethics of technology. She was the ethics advisor for the Paris-based foundation ICONEM, and helped to build a framework for the use of digital technologies and AI to serve the cultural heritage management industry. She has worked with ICOMOS to create new guidelines for the recording of monuments for UNESCO. She has also been the arts and AI advisor for Duke University's Ethical Tech program.

Dr. Spratt is the former high technology advisor for The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library, and was on the Scholar's Advisory board. She also was on the Digital Advisory Board for the Renaissance Society of America. Previously, Dr. Spratt worked for the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, having designed a museum education program in the 21st Byzantine Ephorate, and worked as a liaison for UNESCO during the period that the Old Town of Corfu, Greece, was inscribed on the World Heritage list. 

Dr. Spratt is  also involved with the transfer of technology (ToT). She was an advisor for the Washington, D.C.-based Defense Innovation Accelerator (run by the deep tech innovation platform, FedTech), which is a part of the National Security Innovation Network and is sponsored by the Department of Defense. In this role, she advised early-stage companies that utilize DoD-related technologies in the spirit of "make art, not war." Additionally, she has been on the cybersecurity committee for the IEEE Standards Association, creating guidelines for the Clinical Internet of Things (IoT) Data and Device Interoperability with TIPPSS – Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety, Security. 

In New York, Emily is a charter member of the Princeton Alumni Angel investors, where she is involved with sourcing AI and image-related companies. She also was mentor for Princeton graduate students in the humanities and engineering. 

Please write to Emily at emilylspratt@gmail.com for more information.