Ryan combines his experience in top-tier legal and professional services with a deep passion for the cultural sector. During his time at AEA he has delivered projects for Art Mill Museums (Qatar) and Chickasaw Nation (USA).

Prior to joining AEA, Ryan was an attorney at a leading global law firm, working primarily on governance and regulatory issues for large institutional investors and not-for-profit organizations. Ryan also has extensive experience working with rare books and archives, conducting curatorial, exhibition, and general collection management work at the universities of Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge, as well as for an exhibition at the Boston Athenaeum. Before that, Ryan both designed and ran programs to increase the educational attainment of under-represented groups at the University of Toronto.

Ryan holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.St. in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto, where he graduated at the top of his degree. Ryan is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.