Joëlle Dinnage

Dutch award-winning entrepreneur Joëlle Dinnage, “inspirational businesswoman” and international art dealer started her first art business in 2010. After the successful and rapid growth of her first business, she founded the Global Art Agency (MACA DMCC) in 2011. With her gleaming commercial talents, she expanded her offices in London, Dubai and Shanghai. TheGlobal Art Agency  is now one of the fastest-growing international art platforms – organizing large art events in cities such as Tokyo, Dubai, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Miami, Shanghai, Oxford, Singapore, and many more.

Her company The GLOBAL ART AGENCY(MACA DMCC) succeeded with being shortlisted in the top 30 of the Virgin Media Business VOOM Awards with Dinnage’s pitch to Sir Richard Branson in 2015. Joëlle has organised over 40 large-scale international art fairs welcoming millions of visitors and generating huge art sales for their exhibitors with their main partner being the Wall Street Journal.

Joëlle is also the Founder of the Global Art Awards in Dubai dubbed as “The Oscars for the Visual Arts”. Dinnage works together with His Royal Highness Sheikh Saeed Bin Tahnoun on impacting the Art & Culture positively in the United Arab Emirates. She also established the Middle East Art Collector Association – an elite art collector membership society.

Since 2019 Dinnage works also together with the Minister of Culture in Shanghai and together with the Government of Shanghai she organizes the Shanghai International Art Fair (now in its second year) held at the NECC. China’s largest cluster for international cultural trade, with an amazing amount of visitor numbers of 120,000, including 25,000 professional buyers.

Dinnage currently owns 4 companies and has won over 10 titles for her entrepreneurship including the title of ‘Female Entrepreneur 2015’ at the Stevie® Awards in New York, and ‘Inspirational Female Leader 2019’ in Dubai at the Business Excellence Awards.

Joëlle’s core strengths are her commercial and entrepreneurial skills with a problem-solving attitude, implementing profitable strategic business structures and helped many startup companies succeed. She is also a professional in marketing, communication and sales.