Ute Wartenberg
Ute Wartenberg (born 1963) is a German numismatist, the first woman president and executive director of the American Numismatic Society, a research numismatic research institution founded in 1858. She obtained her PhD in Papyrology and Classical Literature from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, and later taught there. After two decades as ANS Executive Director, she took on a research curator role before being elected as the ANS President. Career. From 1991 to 1998, Wartenberg was the Curator of Greek Coins at the British Museum in London. She then served as executive director of the American Numismatics Society  for twenty years. In 2000, she oversaw a controversial budget-cutting and reorganization to reduce the society's deficit, which included a move of the Society's facilities to a new location in the Manhattan Financial District. In 2002, Wartenberg was appointed to the Citizens Commemorative Coin Advisory Committee of the U.S. Mint, of which she was later appointed Chairperson. In 2017, Wartenberg was appointed on the Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force committee of the Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation. Wartenberg serves as an adjunct professor of Classics at Columbia University, and as the curator of the Amastris Collection, a private collection  of Greek coins. Wartenberg was Chairperson of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee from 2003 to 2007. Since 2008, she has been a Trustee of the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial in New Hampshire. She was a Trustee, President and CEO of the Annie Tinker Association for Women from 2009-18. Wartenberg has served on the Committee of the International Numismatic Council since 2015. In 2019 she became a member and Chairperson of ICOM International Committee for Money and Banking Museums. Wartenberg has been interviewed and quoted in numerous publications and news stories. Research. Wartenberg has published widely in a range research  journals and numismatic publications. Personal life. She is married to Jonathan Kagan, who also studied Classics at Oxford. Honors. Wartenberg was elected as Numismatic Ambassador in 2002. She was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2008. She was awarded the honorary award of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Geldgeschichte in Germany in 2015. In 2017 she was a Visiting Professor of the City of Wrocław, Poland.