People: Board of Trustees
Mr 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.
Mr Simon Burke
A specialist in retail turnarounds, he has a financial background and has acted as Chairman or CEO of several well-known retailers, including Virgin, Our Price and Hamleys. Currently Chairman of Irish supermarket business Superquinn, and Majestic Wine PLC
Professor David Ekserdjian
Professor of Art History at the University of Leicester, former Editor of Apollo Magazine (1997-2004), writer and journalist
Mr James Fenton
Poet, critic and journalist - has written extensively on art. Professor of Poetry at Oxford 1994-1999
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.
Professor Dame Julia Higgins
The Gallery’s Scientist Trustee, she is Emeritus Professor of Polymer Science and Senior Research Investigator in the Department of Chemical Engineering in Imperial College, London.
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.
Professor Mervyn King
Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee, Professor of Economics at the LSE from 1984, and has been Visiting Professor at both Harvard and MIT
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard
A former Ambassador to the EU and USA, he was Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service from 1997-2002. He became a cross-bench Peer in 2004. He is currently Deputy Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and Chairman of the Court and Council of Imperial College, London.
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
Mr John Lessore
Artist Trustee - has work represented in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the RA and the Tate
Lady Normanby
Literary critic (currently for the Daily Telegraph and Times Literary Supplement) and author. Her first book, 'A Rage for Rock Gardening', a biography of the 19th Century gardener Reginald Farrer, was published in 2002. She is currently working on a study of Sir Thomas Wyatt.
Mr Ranjit Sondhi
Formerly on the Commission for Racial Equality, the Independent Broadcasting Authority and the Radio Authority, he was also a Governor of the BBC for the English Regions. Recently retired as a Senior Lecturer in Youth and Community Studies at the University of Birmingham, he is currently Chairman of the Heart of Birmingham Primary Care Trust and a Civil Service Commissioner.
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.
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