András Szántó is a writer, researcher, and consultant on the fields of art, media, cultural policy, and philanthropy. He is the former director of the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University, where he also directed the NEA Arts Journalism Institute, and he has been a lecturer on arts management at the Sotheby's Institute of Art in New York. He has designed conferences, conducted research, and launched initiatives for major foundations, museums, arts organizations, and commercial enterprises. He is co-author and editor of five books, and his reporting and commentary have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Art Newspaper, Artforum, and other publications. In 2003 he helped organize an international conference on cultural diplomacy at Columbia University titled Arts & Minds.