Niyash Mistry is a Toronto-based advocate for the arts. His work amplifies the voices of South Asian-origin artists through projects that activate the collecting community, curators and public institutions. His ongoing mission is to articulate overlooked aesthetics and narratives, and situate them within the current global discourse on the region’s socio-cultural, political, historical and diasporic context. Niyash is also engaged on a long-term project to build a collection of contemporary South Asian and diasporic artworks as part of this mission. He is a board member of the South Asian Visual Arts Centre, a non-profit artist-run centre in Canada. Outside the arts, Niyash has a decade-long career in risk management, working for Kroll, a global forensic investigations and corporate intelligence firm. Through this work, he advises governments, pension funds, non-profits and corporations on issues ranging from fraud mitigation, corruption and political risk, and governance best-practices.