A for­mer FBI ape­cial agent, Robert K. Wittman served as an inves­tiga­tive expert involv­ing cul­tur­al prop­er­ty crime. In 2005, he cre­at­ed the FBI’s rapid deploy­ment nation­al Art Crime Team (ACT). He is the author of Price­less: How I Went Under­cov­er to Res­cue the World’s Stolen Treasures.