Biography
David Nelson Gimbel is the founder and Director of Archaeos, Inc., a non-profit organization in New York City dedicated to archaeological research and education and a Member of the Board of Directors of Deep Dish Television Network, New York City.
He served as the Director of the Archaeos Survey Project at Vijayanagara, India and as Co-Director of The Iraq War & Archaeology, Documentation and Information Project. He also directed a joint excavation with the University of Vienna at Tell Arbid, Syria and was a lecturer at the University of Vienna in 1999-2000.
Following the 2003 Iraq War, he held the position of Associate Director and the Cultural Information Manager for the Getty Conservation Institute & World Monuments Fund Iraq Cultural Heritage Conservation Initiative.
His areas of applied research and expertise include: laws, conventions, strategies, and policy building for tangible and intangible culture; the implementation of cultural resource management policies for built heritage; the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict.
He has lectured extensively about the effects of war on cultural heritage to numerous groups and organizations, including NATO and The Institute for Human and Social Sciences of the National Defense Academy, Vienna (Austria).
He is a former Research Associate at the Columbia University Center for Buddhist Studies (Department of Religious Studies at Columbia University), was a Research Fellow at the American Institute of Indian Studies (New Delhi), a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, and a postgraduate student at Columbia University.
He received his doctorate (D.Phil.) from the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford (UK); his M.A. degree in Art History and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; his B.A. degree in English Literature and Spanish from Wesleyan University.