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Derek Anthony Gillman (born 7 December 1952) was executive director and president of the
Barnes Foundation The Barnes Foundation is an art collection and educational institution promoting the appreciation of art and horticulture. Originally in Merion, the art collection moved in 2012 to a new building on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, ...
from August 2006 to January 2014. In 2014, Gillman took up a position at
Drexel University Drexel University is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Drexel's undergraduate school was founded in 1891 by Anthony Joseph Drexel, Anthony J. Drexel, a financier ...
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 and executive director of university collections and exhibitions.


Education

Gillman was educated at
Clifton College Clifton College is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in the city of Bristol in South West England, founded in 1862 and offering both boarding school, boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18. In its early years, unlike mo ...
,
Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen College ( ) is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1458 by Bishop of Winchester William of Waynflete. It is one of the wealthiest Oxford colleges, as of 2022, and ...
(MA), and the
University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a Public university, public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus university, campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and twenty-six schools of ...
(LLM, 1996). 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)


Career

Gillman served as president and director of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1805, it is the longest continuously operating art museum and art school in the United States. The academy's museum ...
from 2001 to 2006.‘GILLMAN, Derek Anthony’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014


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1952 births Living people People educated at Clifton College Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Alumni of the University of East Anglia American art curators {{US-academic-bio-stub