Amin Jaffer

Dr. Amin Jaffer is Director of The Al Thani Collection, an encyclopaedic holding of over 5,000 works of art spanning millennia, representing the vision of His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani.

Formerly Senior Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum and International Director of Asian Art at Christie’s, Jaffer has authored and edited several notable publications, including Furniture from British India and Ceylon (2001) and Made for Maharajas: A Design Diary of Princely India (2006). He co-curated Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500–1800 (2004) and Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts (2009) both at the V&A Museum as well as exhibitions of The Al Thani Collection at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice; Forbidden City, Beijing; Grand Palais, Paris; State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco; and Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo. He was commissioning editor of Beyond Extravagance: A Royal Collection of Gems and Jewels (2013, 2019), Hôtel Lambert (2020).

Jaffer led the development of The Al Thani Collection’s museum space at the Hôtel de la Marine in Paris, which opened to critical acclaim in 2021. Since its inception, the space has hosted exhibitions in collaboration with institutions such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 2023, he was appointed as the Artistic Director of the Islamic Arts Biennale, held in Jeddah from January to May 2025. He serves as Curator of the National Pavilion of India at the 61st Venice Biennale, 2026 and plays a curatorial role in the upcoming Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum, New Delhi.