Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dorothea Green and Suzy Assaad Wahba  to the museum’s Board of Trustees.

Both Green and Wahba have been longtime supporters of PAMM and will continue to make vital contributions to the museum in their new roles. The Board of Trustees has been integral to PAMM’s growth and success, and has provided exceptional leadership and support.

“As we chart a course for new growth at the Pérez, it is vital that we have energized and engaged trustees who share our vision of its future,” stated Franklin Sirmans, Director. Our engagement between staff and board has never been stronger. “Dorothea and Suzy will bring new areas of expertise and experience and they both share our commitment to making great art accessible to the entire community, and our commitment to PAMM’s role as a civic leader in what is undoubtedly a moment of exciting development in the county of Miami-Dade, the city of Miami and the region of South Florida.”

Dorothea Green has long served the art, philanthropic and education communities of Miami. Green and her husband Ambassador Steven Green represented the United States of America to the Republic of Singapore from 1997–2001.

As a founding member of the Green Family Foundation, she has participated in a close alliance with Florida International University (FIU) where she served on the board for three years. At FIU, the Steven and Dorothea Green Library and the Digital Library of the Caribbean were created. Neighborhood HELP (Health, Education, Learning Program) and SIPA, The School of International Public Affairs were also established through this collaboration.

Green served on the Board of Miami’s Marian Center, a school for students with developmental disabilities. She served as the founder of the FIU Dorothea Green Critics Lecture Series and the Frost Museum’s Dorothea Green Art Lecture Series. At the Adrienne Arsht Center, the GFF has established the Dorothea Green Theater as well as offering support for the Center’s Community Engagement activities.

With her husband Steven, she has traveled these last 10 years on their boat to 72 countries around the world. Her second book, CROSSINGS, about their adventures at sea will soon be completed.

Suzy Assaad Wahba was an anchor and reporter for Bloomberg Television in New York City for more than 10 years, where she covered topics such as debt and equity capital markets, commodities and foreign exchange, and NASDAQ and the tech boom.

Prior to her work at Bloomberg, she was employed at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC, where she advised Latin American countries on the development of their capital markets; the World Bank, where she was responsible for implementing policies to assist underdeveloped countries privatize state-owned enterprises; and the American Security Bank (now Bank of America), where she focused on cross currency training.

An Egyptian-American, Wahba is fluent in four languages and has lived in the Middle East and Europe.  She holds a B.A. in finance from George Washington University and an M.Phil from St. Antony’s College at Oxford University.

Wahba is a trustee at The American Academy in Rome, The Miami City Ballet, and the Vienna Philharmonic Society. She is a board member of the International Peace Institute and a Foundation Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.

About PAMM

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), led by Director Franklin Sirmans, promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. The nearly 40-year-old South Florida institution, formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, on December 4, 2013 in Downtown Miami’s Maurice A. Ferré Park. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces.

Photos Credit: Pérez Art Museum Miami

Date Posted: January 25, 2023