Lina Lazaar is the Vice President of the Kamel Lazaar Foundation (KLF), a Geneva- and Tunis-based institution focused on supporting visual culture, cultural production, culture-related education, and the development of diverse connected ecosystems across the MENA region.

Lina has been leading the KLF since 2015 and is responsible for the day-to-day running of the foundation. She has founded and leads many of the KLF’s prominent initiatives, including Ibraaz, an editorial platform that has been relaunched as a London-based cultural institution; the JAOU biennial, a platform for diverse international curators to deliver city-wide interventions, activations, symposiums, concerts, and large-scale exhibitions across the MENA region; B7L9, the first independent, experimental, and entirely community-managed art space in Tunis; as well as the KLF collection.

Lina previously served as a Contemporary Art Specialist at Sotheby's, London. Throughout her decade-long career, she spearheaded the development of the contemporary Arab and Iranian art market in the international auction market, including the launch of Sotheby’s auctions in the Middle East.

Throughout her professional career, Lina has also been a curator of contemporary art exhibitions and interventions. Lina made her curatorial debut at the Tate Modern in 2010, following which she curated "The Future of a Promise," the first Pan-Arab Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Lina was also the founder and lead curator of Jeddah Art Week (JAW) in 2012, through which she brought the first large-scale city-wide interventions and exhibitions to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Lina returned to the Venice Biennale in 2017 as curator of "The Absence of Paths," Tunisia’s first national pavilion for over 50 years, which attracted over 100,000 visitors and was voted among the top ten pavilions at the 2017 Venice Biennale.

Lina is an advisory board member of the University of Chicago’s Renaissance Society, as well as the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of HEC and holds graduate degrees from the London School of Economics (mathematics & statistics) and Sotheby's Institute of Art (in post-war contemporary art).