Catharina Kahane is a NOMIS board member.
Kahane studied art history and classical archaeology at the University of Vienna (Austria) and is an expert on the paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder as well as on the theory and practice of contemporary art. She has published in both research areas and has been teaching art history at the Vienna University, at the Academy for Fine Arts and at the University for Applied Arts (Vienna). In 2012 Kahane co-founded ECHO100Plus, an NGO that is involved in refugee relief and refugee education on the Greek islands.