By Noelle McElhatton
“Challenging, rewarding, but not difficult,” is how Rebecca Davies, outgoing chief executive of LAPADA, views her three and a half years at the helm of the dealer trade body, as she returns to the contemporary art world as business director of Marian Goodman Gallery (ATG No 2313).
We expect such diplomacy from our association chiefs. Indeed, the ability to be ‘a first-class ambassador’ to represent LAPADA’s 550-plus members is high on the list of qualities sought in her successor, according to the advertisement for the post.