Ute Wartenberg
Ute Wartenberg | |
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Wartenberg in 2021 | |
| Born | 1963 (age 62–63) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Saarbrücken (BA) University of Oxford (DPhil) |
| Thesis | Some papyri from Oxyrhynchus (1990) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Papyrology |
| Institutions | University of Oxford British Museum American Numismatic Society Columbia University |
| President of the American Numismatic Society | |
| Assumed office 24 October 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Sydney F. Martin |
Ute Wartenberg FSA (born 1963) is a German numismatist and the first woman president and executive director of the American Numismatic Society (ANS). Wartenberg serves as an adjunct professor of classics at Columbia University and as the curator of the Amastris Collection, a private collection of Greek coins.
Wartenberg obtained her D.Phil. in papyrology and classical literature from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, and later taught there. After two decades as ANS Executive Director, she took on a research curator role, before being elected as the ANS President in 2020. She returned to the role of Executive Director in 2024.