Paul Hepworth is an independent conservator of Islamic manuscripts and textiles in Istanbul, Turkey. After completing his conservation training and obtaining a degree in Art History at the Conservation Center of the Fine Arts Institute of New York University, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study Islamic manuscripts. He then worked as a conservator for several years at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, with a particular focus on its Islamic manuscript collection. After returning to Istanbul, he has been involved in a number of conservation projects and educational efforts in Turkey and throughout the Islamic world. He is a co-author of a curriculum for the training of Islamic manuscript conservators and of a terminology database for the description of Islamic manuscripts. Most recently, he established the manuscript conservation laboratory at the Rare Books Library of Istanbul University and worked with private collectors.