Noah Charney is a professor and an international author of fiction and non‐fiction, specializing in the fields of art history and art crime.

He is the founder and president of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a non‐profit research group on issues in art crime.

His work in the field of art crime has been praised in such international forums as the New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, BBC Radio, National Public Radio, El Pais, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Playboy, Elle and Tatler among many others.

He has appeared on radio and television as an expert on art history and art crime, including BBC, ITV, CNBC and MSNBC. Charney is the author of numerous articles and a novel, The Art Thief (2007).