Myrna Ayad

Spear's Review

Myrna Ayad is one of the Middle East’s foremost art advisers, working with individual and family collectors as well as large cultural institutes and galleries.

She is a writer, strategist, curator and adviser. Her book, Sheikh Zayed: An Eternal Legacy, is a sumptuous illustrated biography of the UAE’s first president, and her column in The National, Remembering The Artist, profiles modernist and contemporary figures in the Emirates’ art scene. Before becoming an adviser, she was editor of Canvas, the in-depth high quality art magazine and director of Art Dubai.

Ayad now has a range of UHNW individual, government and corporate clients, including multinationals such as PepsiCo and Bulgari as well as consultancies including Edelman Communications and Bain.