Derek Gillman

Derek Gillman (center) with George W. Bush and Laura Bush

Derek Anthony Gillman (born 7 December 1952) was executive director and president of the Barnes Foundation from August 2006 to January 2014. In 2014, Gillman took up a position at Drexel University as a distinguished visiting professor in the Department of Art & Art History and the Museum Leadership graduate program, and is now a distinguished teaching professor ^[1] and executive director of university collections and exhibitions. ^[2]

Education

Gillman was educated at Clifton College, Magdalen College, Oxford (MA), and the University of East Anglia (LLM, 1996). ^[3] He is author of The Idea of Cultural Heritage (Cambridge University Press 2nd ed., 2010) and co-editor of The Preservation of Art and Culture in Times of War (Oxford University Press, 2022) [4]

Career

Gillman served as president and director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 2001 to 2006. ^[5]

References

1. "Derek Gillman - Westphal College of Media Arts & Design". Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
2. "Derek Gillman". drexel.edu. 22 December 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
3. "The Man Who Would Move the Barnes". The New York Times . 28 March 2007. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
4. The Preservation of Art and Culture in Times of War. Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 20 September 2022. ISBN   978-0-19-761056-5.
5. ‘GILLMAN, Derek Anthony’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014