VIVIENNE BECKER is a world-leading, award-winning jewellery expert, historian, journalist, author, lecturer and broadcaster. She is renowned around the world for her specialist knowledge of the history of jewellery, for her passion and contagious enthusiasm for gems and jewels, and for her in-depth understanding of today’s jewellery world. As an award-winning journalist, she is a Contributing Editor to the Financial Times’ How to Spend It magazine, a contributor to The Telegraph and Saturday Telegraph and to magazines around the world, and has a regular column in Sotheby’s magazine. 

As an author, she has written many books on the history of jewellery design, some of them standard works on their subject, and contributed chapters to several more books. She has collaborated with former US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, on the best-selling book about her collection of brooches, Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box.  As a lecturer and broadcaster, known for her in-depth knowledge, passion and engaging style, Vivienne speaks on all aspects of the jewellery world, past and present, on history and contemporary trends, on gems and jewels, all around the globe. 

As a creative consultant and trend-forecaster Vivienne works for international brands and organisations, sought-after for her speciality of bringing the past into the present, fusing history and heritage with contemporary style and global design, social and cultural trends.