He has worked with governments in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and North America on issues of cultural diplomacy, repatriation and human remain in museums.
He is also a board member of the British Columbia Achievement Foundation[4] Jack Lohman was born and grew up in London, to which his parents had immigrated from Poland.
[5][6] He attended the Cardinal Vaughan school London from 1969 to 1976, followed by the University of East Anglia in Norwich, from which he graduated in 1979 with an honours degree in art history.
He has also served on the board of the Second World War Museum in Gdańsk, Poland and is a former member of the UK National Commission's to UNESCO’s Culture Committee.
[5] Lohman is a polyglot who besides English speaks Polish, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese and thus his library too spans multiple languages.