About Rick St. Hilaire
Rick St. Hilaire is an attorney, executive leader, former chief prosecutor, and former White House appointee who has been practicing law for more than three decades. His professional practice includes a particular focus on cultural heritage law, museum risk management, transnational cultural heritage crime, and historic preservation law.
Attorney St. Hilaire served two White House administrations as a presidential appointee to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee, which makes recommendations to the U.S. State Department on proposed cultural property agreements with foreign nations.
He was appointed by the Governor of New Hampshire to the State Historical resources Council and serves as Chairman. The Council recommends properties to the National and State Historic Registers.
He is the author of “Cultural Property Protection in the Context of Counter-Terrorist Financing: An Emerging Legal Paradigm in the United States,” published by Oxford University Press in the book titled, The Preservation of Art and Culture in Times of War.
Rick St. Hilaire is the founder and former executive director of Red Arch Cultural Heritage Law & Policy Research. He serves as a Board of Trustee for the American Society of Overseas Research, is a past Board of Governor of the American Research Center in Egypt, and is an active member of the International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection.
He has taught on topics of cultural property law and antiquities trafficking at institutions including Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Boston University, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Attorney St. Hilaire received his Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University.