About Us:

Anne Webber, together with David Lewis, Co-chairs of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe (ECLA), founded the Central Registry as an independent charitable body under the auspices of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in 2001.

ECLA was set up in 1999 to act as a centre of expertise and assistance to families, institutions and governments with respect to the identification and recovery of Nazi-looted cultural property. Anne Webber is a member of the Cultural Property Policy Unit of the European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC) and sits on the British government Spoliation Advisory Committee which supervises the work of British museums in researching their collections to identify looted artworks. She was a member of the organizing committee for the Vilnius International Forum on Holocaust-Era Looted Cultural Assets and contributed to the drafting of Resolution 1205 of the Council of Europe on the restitution of looted cultural property in Europe.