James K. Reap, is Professor and Director of the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Georgia (USA), Director of the university’s Croatia Study Abroad Program, faculty in the African Studies Institute, and Fellow of the Dean Rusk Center for International and Comparative Law. He holds a Juris Doctor degree. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Jordan University of Science and Technology and a visiting professor at the Orenburg Institute of the Moscow State Law Academy. He was appointed by President Obama to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee of the US State Department. He is current Secretary General and past President of the Legal, Administrative and Financial Committee of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and past officer of the ICOMOS Scientific Council. He serves as board member of the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield and Executive Committee member of US/ICOMOS. He received the Ann Webster Smith Award in 2019, the highest US/ICOMOS award. He has conducted research and projects in Eastern and Southern Europe, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and the Caribbean and has provided training and technical assistance to historic preservation commissions throughout the United States.