Derek Gillman has been the Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation since 2006. From 2001 to 2006, he held the position of President and Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Prior to moving to the Academy as Executive Director and Provost in 1999, Gillman served as Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. From 1985 to 1995, he was Keeper (equivalent to Director) of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, which houses the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection of modern art, antiquities, and the arts of Africa, the Pacific region and the Americas. He began his museum career in 1981 at the British Museum as a research assistant in the Department of Oriental Antiquities.

Between 1977 and 1981, Gillman worked as a specialist in Chinese art at Christie’s London, following a year spent at the Beijing Languages Institute on a British Council scholarship. He was an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he first read Philosophy and Psychology and then Chinese Studies, and holds a Master of Laws degree by research from the University of East Anglia.

Anderson has written and taught on the subjects of Chinese art and cultural heritage, and is the author of The Idea of Cultural Heritage (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He is a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors and president of the International Cultural Property Society.

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