GREGORY LUKOW
Retired Chief, Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
17265 Feldspar Lane
Culpeper, Virginia 22701
U.S.A.
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Gregory Lukow is retired Chief of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, where for 24 years he was head of the world’s largest collection of moving images and sound recordings. He oversaw the design and implementation of the NAVCC Packard Campus, guiding one of the Library’s most advanced technological undertakings to its opening in 2007. His responsibilities included administering the National Film Preservation Board, the National Recording Preservation Board, and the ongoing development, as mandated by the U.S. Congress, of national preservation plans for moving images and sound recordings.
Lukow attended his first FIAF Congress in Havana in 1990, was co-organizer of the FIAF 1995 Congress in Los Angeles, and served on FIAF’s Executive Committee from 2005-2007. He was a principal founder of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, serving as AMIA’s founding Secretary and six terms on its Board of Directors. He served on the Archivists Council of The Film Foundation, the Sony Pictures Preservation Committee, the Digital Preservation Committee of the Motion Picture Academy’s Science & Technology Council, and represented IFLA on UNESCO’s Coordinating Counsel of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA).
Lukow worked extensively in national preservation policy planning and implementation, directing numerous national-level initiatives, developing ground-breaking preservation and access partnerships with major industry leaders, and fostering intersections within the archival, creative and scholarly communities. Prior to coming to the Library, Lukow was director of the AFI’s National Center for Film and Video Preservation, where he oversaw all of the AFI’s national preservation programs.
In 2024, Lukow received the AMIA Keystone Award which honors organizations or individuals who have had a foundational role in the Association and the field. This was only the third time in its 34-year history that AMIA had given this award, and the first time it was presented to an individual.
