He found business "boring, " and chose fashion, enrolling at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

WSJ: The Insider's Outsider

Mr. Ackermann studied fashion at Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts, whose alumni include Dries Van Noten, Martin Margiela and Ann Demeulemeester.

WSJ: The Ackermann Effect

Ms. Demeulemeester graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1981 with other soon-to-be-famous designers Dries Van Noten and Dirk Bikkembergs.

WSJ: Deconstructing Designer Ann Demeulemeester

Various speakers took the floor including Kiran Manandhar, Chancellor of the Nepal Academy of Fine Arts and Ram Kumar Panday, President of PEN Nepal and papers were presented on freedom of expression in literature, cinema and new media.

UNESCO: Freedom of artistic expression promoted at PEN symposium