Patty Wageman – President

Committees: Executive, Membership,  Conference Committee 2025/26
Committee Chair: Executive

Dutch. Council member since 2023, and President since 2025. Patty Wageman is the director of the Groningen Historic Churches Foundation (Stichting Oude Groninger Kerken). Before that, she had been director of Museum De Buitenplaats Eelde. She has a lot of administrative experience, including as chair of the Arts Advisory Committee, Arts Council Groningen for the 2017-2020 subsidy round, and as a member of the Work Advisory Council of the Frank Mohr Institute, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen. 

Peter Aiers – Treasurer

Committees: Finance
Committee chair: N/A

British. Council member since 2023. 34th Master and Chief Executive of the Charterhouse. He was previously the Chief Executive of the Churches Conservation Trust, a national charity caring for historic church buildings across England and had worked here for 15 years. Peter Aiers’s background is in historic building conservation and has always had a particular interest in how historic buildings can best serve contemporary society. He has a track record of significant historic church building development projects and also invented Champing™. Peter is a trustee of the Heritage Alliance, and Goodwill Solutions CIO and also a member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation.

Stefan Beier – Secretary

Committees: Finance, Membership
Committee Chair: n/a

German. A member since 2018 and a council member since 2019, Stefan is the Chair of the Board of KLOSTERLAND, an association of monasteries in Germany and Poland. Director of Museum im Zisterzienserkloster Lehnin (Museum in the former Cistercian Monastery of Lehnin).

Justin Kroesen

Committees: Scientific Advisory, Paris Conference Subcommittee
Committee Chair: n/a

Dutch. A member since 2013 and council member since 2020, Justin is a professor of the Material Culture of Christianity at the University of Bergen (Norway), and curator of the church art collection at its University Museum. Research interests include the art and architecture of medieval churches and their fate through the sixteenth-century Reformations. During many years he was actively involved in the work of the foundations of old Groningen and Friesland churches (the Netherlands).

Michael Mail

Committees: Strategic Planning, Governance and Nominations, Vicenza Conference Subcommittee
Committee Chair: Governance

British. A member since 2014 and a council member since 2019, Michael is an effective Leader – with extensive experience in a range of leadership roles. Initiator of Change – translating vision to strategy to programme. Fundraiser – top donor and mass campaign. Award-winning Author. Founder & Chief Executive, Foundation for Jewish Heritage, 2014-to present.

Andrea Longhi

Committees: Scientific Advisory
Committee chair: N/A

Italian. Member since 2018 and Council member since 2020. Associate Professor in the History of Architecture, Politecnico di Torino. Consultant for Cultural Heritage Projects for ecclesiastical projects and from 2019 consultant on the implementation of the Regional Landscape Plan for Regione Piemonte. Wide experience of university teaching and research in architecture and heritage.

Chiara Curti

Committees: Membership, Barcelona Conference Subcommittee

Committee chair: Membership (co-chair)

Spanish. Council Member since 2022. Chiara is an Italian architect from the Politecnico di Milano working in the field of religious heritage. She is a Doctor in Art History, teaching at the Antoni Gaudi Faculty at the Ateneu Sant Pacia.  She is also the director of the Barcelona Office of the Eugenia Balcells Foundation. She is an experienced exhibition curator, having curated numerous major exhibitions on the work of Antoni Gaudi.

Sofia M. Vollmer

Committees: Membership Committee

Committee Chair: N/A

French and Venezuelan. Council Member since 2022. Sofia holds a Master’s from Sciences Po in International Affairs, specialising in Fundraising and Project Management. She worked on EU-funded projects for five years based in Paris prior to moving to Belgium and has experience in management and fundraising. She is the Director of Business Development for a Belgian Company that provides digital tools to family offices, businesses, boards and councils worldwide.

Lacramioara Beilic

Committees: Membership Committee

Committee Chair: N/A

Romanian. Council Member since 2022. Lacramioara Beilic is a Romanian member of FRH who has taken part in various projects with the network, the latest being LEARN-IP. She is the Executive Director of the Bucovina Tourism Association and works to promote Bucovina as a tourist destination, including a number of the Romanian Painted Monasteries. She also tutors and mentors students at the Stefan cel Mare, University of Suceava.  She has an extensive experience in tourism, management and financial expertise.

Rolando Volzone

Committees: Scientific,
Committee chair: N/A

Italian. Council Member since 2025. He is an architect and integrated researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. His research focuses on religious heritage in Southern Europe, adopting an interdisciplinary approach that combines history, architecture, landscape, digital tools, and public policies. Since 2022, he has taught in master’s and PhD programs in Portugal and Italy, and he coordinates the international conference Architectures of the Soul. He has taken part in several national and European projects and currently coordinates transHERITAGE as well as the Religious Heritage Observatory, contributing to the advancement of knowledge in cultural heritage studies.

Ildefonso de la Campa Montenegro

Committees: N/A
Committee chair: N/A

Spanish. Council Member since 2025. He chairs the European Federation of the Camino de Santiago, which promotes a more connected, inclusive, and sustainable Camino de Santiago. He has held various positions in the administration of the Xunta de Galicia, including advisor to the President of the Xunta de Galicia between July and October 2018 and General Director of the Association of Older People and People with Disabilities (2018-2020). Since October 2020, he has been Director of Administration and Relations with Associations of the Camino de Santiago SA of the Xestión do Plan Xacobeo.

Anna Dulska

Committees: N/A
Committee chair: N/A

Polish. Council Member since 2025. She is a historian, Associate Professor, and Researcher at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra (Spain). A Polish scholar with a transnational background, she specialises in the Middle Ages and contemporary history, focusing on medieval Christian and Jewish religious heritage, and its contemporary resignifications, as well as historical memory and remembrance. Her work explores the links between heritage, identity, and social transformation, combining rigorous research with public engagement. She collaborates with the Hospitaller Royal Monastery of Our Lady of Sijena, developing community-based strategies for the inclusive interpretation and stewardship of sacred sites across Europe.