Governance
Find out about our Board of Trustees and our Enterprise Board below.
Board of Trustees
Dame Janet Vitmayer, DBE (Chair of Trustees)
Janet has worked in museums for over 40 years at national, regional and local level. She was CEO of the Horniman Museum and Gardens from 1999- 2018 where she led a series of successful capital developments and fundraising campaigns resulting in the transformation of the Horniman’s galleries, buildings and Gardens. Underpinned by collections development and audience engagement, this led to an increase of over 300% in visitor numbers.
Janet has served on expert panels and has wide experience of museum boards and committees, including: Visitor, University of Oxford (Pitt Rivers); Trustee Hunterian Collection RCS; Trustee London Transport Museum; Trustee Collections Trust; HLF Expert Panel memberand Project Board for Wellcome Collection development. She has also chaired the Wellcome Trust culture and society capital awards committee and the Women Leaders in Museums Network.
She has spoken on leadership at international conferences, and run training seminars for the British Museum International Training Programme in the UK and abroad.Janet is currently a trustee of Dulwich Picture Gallery, Chair of the Visual Arts Committee St Paul’s Cathedral and Vice Chair of the Florence Nightingale Museum. Since leaving the Horniman she has worked as a consultant for the National Lottery Heritage Fund and for universities. She mentors CEO’s, aspiring leaders, and young women in the cultural sector. Janet was made a Dame in the 2018 Honours List for services to museums and diversity.
Crispin Southgate
Crispin Southgate is one of the founding directors of Institutional Investment Advisors Limited, advising on and arranging investments for insurers, banks and pension funds, Crispin is also a member of the Basel FSB’s Enhanced Disclosure Task Force and the Corporate Reporting Users Forum.
He has also served on the Risk Working Group of the FRC/Board for Actuarial Standards and the Employee Benefits Working Group of the IASB. Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse in 1980, he spent over 20 years in investment banking with Charterhouse, SG Warburg and latterly as a managing director and European Credit Strategist of Merrill Lynch.
Benedict Brogan (Vice Chair of Trustees)
Benedict Brogan is currently Group Public Affairs Director at Lloyds Banking Group. He had a long-standing career in political journalism, holding several senior positions, most recently as Deputy Editor and Chief Political Commentator for The Daily Telegraph and previously as Political Editor for the Daily Mail.
Sian Williams
Sian Williams is a chartered accountant with over 20 years’ experience in the museum sector. She previously held the position of Director of Finance and Resources at both Tate and the V&A as well as a non-executive role as a Trustee of Global Giving Ltd. Sian is currently Programme Director for The Science Museum Group’s large capital programme, the One Collection project.
Helen Macintyre
Helen Macintyre has worked in the international art world for over 20 years. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1996 with an MA in History of Art, she worked for Old Master Dealers, Hall & Knight in London and New York and for the Client Advisory team at Christie’s before founding Macintyre Art Advisory in 2007. Helen has helped build a number of private, museum and corporate collections around the world. Helen sits on the Advisory Board for Apollo Magazine, is a Consultant for the Pilkington Anglo-Japanese Cultural Foundation and is listed in the Spear’s 500 Top Ten Art Advisors.
Katy Wickremesinghe
Katy Wickremesinghe is a British-Sri Lankan entrepreneur and founder of KTW London. A top 5 Luxury Power player (PR Week Powerbook 2020), Katy formed KTW in 2014 to connect the culturally curious, build communities and help individuals, brands and organisations understand the impact of arts, culture and design in our daily lives and commerce. A committed cultural advocate and philanthropist, Katy serves as: V&A Young Patron, RA patron, Future Contemporaries patron with The Serpentine and as a mentor for The Association of Women in the Arts (AWITA). She also holds a number of prominent advisory and board roles including: The Line, CogX, The Colombo Biennale and Platform Presents. Katy holds a history degree from Warwick University and a diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Dulwich Picture Gallery Enterprise Board
Benedict Brogan (Vice Chair of Trustees)
See above for Benedict's biography
Jim Close OBE
Jim was formerly Deputy Director of the V&A where he was employed for more than 19 years having initially been appointed Chief Administrator in 1984 when the V&A became a Trustee museum. Whilst at the V&A he was also a founding Trustee of Sheffield Museums and Galleries Trust. Prior to joining the museum Jim was in the Cabinet Office.
Since retirement he has been a Trustee of Handel House and The Foundling Museum ( Chair 2014 - 2016) as well as being a Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery Enterprises. He is also an external member of the Audit Committee at the Wallace Collection.