Tatyana Franck

Tatyana Franck became President of FIAF on March 1, 2022, and was excitedly welcomed by the Board of Trustees and the FIAF team for her strong leadership, global strategic vision, and participatory management style which will help grow the institution into an international leader in French education and francophone culture in the new digital landscape.

Franck was previously the Director of the Museum Photo Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland for seven years, where she oversaw a critically acclaimed $108M new construction. She also enriched the museum’s collections, formed exciting new partnerships for local and community engagement, and implemented a new digital strategy to expand the museum’s international reach. Before Photo Elysée, Franck was Director of the Claude Picasso Archives in Paris and Geneva, and oversaw many important collections including of modern and contemporary art, design, and the David Douglas Duncan photographic Archives. Franck attended Columbia Business School’s Executive MBA Program in Asia, London and NYC; after receiving an MA in Business Law and a double major in Law and Art History & Archeology from the Université Paris – Panthéon/Sorbonne.

Franck is involved in the cultural policy of several renowned institutions and holds various honorary positions in France, Switzerland and abroad. Franck currently sits on several boards, including the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris (Treasurer), Fondation Art Explora in Paris, and Fondation du Jeu de Paume in Paris. She is also the respected curator of numerous international exhibitions including Jan Groover: Laboratory of Forms; Charlie Chaplin: A Vision; Hybrids – The Body as the Imaginary; The Beauty of Lines: Masterpieces from the Gilman and Gonzales-Falla Collection; Nicolas Savary: Conquistador; Unfamiliar Familiarities: Outside Views on Switzerland; The Memory of the Future: Photographic Dialogues between Past, Present and Future; Picasso at Work, Through the Lens of David Douglas Duncan; and La Part Animale.