Board of Trustees

At any one time the Gallery has not less than 12 and not more than 14 Trustees. One is appointed by Tate from its own Board. The others are appointed by the Prime Minister, after an open process of selection, which is conducted in accordance with the Code of the Office of the Commissioner of Public Appointments.

Currently, appointments are generally made for a term of four years, and may be renewed once for a further term of the same length.

Current Trustees

Mark Getty (Chairman)
Co-founder and Chairman of Getty Images Inc, an international leader in digital imaging. Previously worked with Kidder Peabody in New York and Hambros Bank Ltd in London. Serves on the boards of several companies and is Chairman of Getty Investments LLC.

• Appointed 6 September 1999
• Reappointed 6 September 2004
• Appointed as Chairman 11 August 2008
• Reappointed as Chairman 11 August 2011

Lance Batchelor
Lance Batchelor has been Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Dominos Pizza UK since June 2011. Until February 2011 he served as Chief Executive of Tesco Telecoms and his career in retail has also included time spent with Procter and Gamble, Amazon.com and Vodafone . Between 1982 and 1990 he served with the Royal Navy.

• Appointed 10 January 2011

Gautam Dalal
An accountant by background, he was a Senior Audit Partner with KPMG’s London office until March 2010. From 2000 to 2003 he was Chairman and Chief Executive of the firm’s practice in India which he had helped to establish. He is a non-executive director of Barts and the London NHS trust, an Audit Committee member of SOAS, a non-executive director of ZincOx Resources Plc and a Trustee and Treasurer of AMREF UK.

• Appointed 25 March 2009

Dexter Dalwood
British artist Dexter Dalwood has been building a strong reputation over the last decade in the UK, Europe and the States. He studied at St Martins and the RCA and recently had a mid-career retrospective at Tate St Ives for which he was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2010.

• Appointed 10 February 2011

Professor David Ekserdjian
Professor of Art History at the University of Leicester, former Editor of Apollo Magazine (1997-2004), writer and journalist.

• Appointed 30 September 2005

Lady Heseltine
Previously a Trustee of both the Victoria and Albert Museum (1997-2002), where she also chaired the Development Committee, and the Imperial War Museum (1991-1998). She was on the Board of Visitors for the Ashmolean Museum (1988-2007). In 1999 she received the Distinguished Friend of Oxford Award from the University of Oxford in recognition of her fundraising; she is also a Fellow of the Museum. She is an adviser to the Oxford Philomusica and a Trustee of the Burlington Magazine.

• Appointed 6 March 2008

Michael Hintze
Founded the London-based hedge fund CQS in 1999, having previously worked with Salomon Brothers, Credit Suisse First Boston and Goldman Sachs. A founder of the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation he is a Trustee of the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Prince of Wales’s Foundation for the Built Environment.

• Appointed 1 April 2008

Professor Anya Hurlbert
Professor of Visual Neuroscience at Newcastle University, and co-founder and Director of the University’s Institute of Neuroscience. Her research focuses on human visual perception, and has included the study of the interplay between visual neuroscience and art.

• Appointed 8 March 2010

Patricia Lankester
By profession a teacher – works independently in the fields of education, grant making, heritage and the arts. Formerly a Director of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund.

• Appointed 1 October 2007

John Nelson
A chartered accountant by background, he took up the position of Chairman of the Council of Lloyds in October 2011. He is also Chairman of property company Hammerson Plc and advisor to Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP. Prior to joining the Board of the National Gallery, he served for 10 years on the Development committee, which he now chairs.

• Appointed 11 October 2010

Hannah Rothschild
A freelance television and film director, writer, journalist, lecturer and broadcaster specialising in the arts. Co-founder of the Artist on Film trust she is Vice President of the Hay Literary Festival and has acted in the past as a trustee of the ICA, Serpentine and Whitechapel Galleries and judge of the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Currently she is engaged in making films for BBC Storyville and writing a biography for Virago.

• Appointed 10 March 2009

Caroline Thomson
Chief Operating Officer at the BBC since 2006, with responsibility for policy, strategy and major infrastructure projects. She is a non-executive director of Digital UK Ltd, The Pensions Regulator and a Trustee of the BBC Pension Fund.

• Appointed 11 August 2008