Yannick LINTZ graduated with a degree in Latin and Greek literature from the University of Strasbourg (France). She has a degree from the Institut National du Patrimoine (France) and received a Phd from the Collège de France for her research on the Achaemenids and the images of the great King in Asia Minor. Her main areas of research deal with the Achaemenid Empire and Islamic Art History.

Her first curatorial position was in the Art and History Museum of Geneva (Switzerland), where she was in charge of Greek and Roman antiquities. In 1992, she became Director of the Fine Arts Museum in Agen (France). She later became a curator in the Musée du Louvre and from 2003-2013 was in charge of an audit of the permanent loans of oriental antiquities and Islamic art for museums in France and abroad. Since 2013, she has been the Director of the Islamic Art Department of the Louvre Museum. She also teaches in the Sorbonne University in Paris and in the University Senghor in Alexandria, Egypt.

She has published many articles about Persian iconography during the Achaemenid Empire and books on the transition between Late Antiquity and the beginning of the Islamic period in Egypt (Antinoé, Momies, textiles, céramiques et autres antiques, Paris Somogy, 2013).

Clement joined the ACM in 2008 as an assistant curator for South Asia. He became curator of Cross-Cultural Art in 2010. He has curated exhibitions Hunters & Collectors (2009), Devotion & Desire: Cross-Cultural Art in Asia (2013), and most recently, Christianity in Asia (2016) and the new Trade galleries at the museum.