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Professor Gerard Vaughan AM has been appointed as the new Director of the National Gallery of Australia.
Professor Vaughan is a recognised international scholar and has had a distinguished career in the museum and galleries sector. He has an outstanding record of leadership, stakeholder engagement, fundraising and cultural diplomacy.
Professor Vaughan has extensive knowledge of the arts sector gained in his thirteen years as Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, as Director of the British Museum Development Trust and in roles at Oxford University and with the Felton Bequest.
Currently, he is a Professorial Fellow at the Australian Institute of Art History at the University of Melbourne, on the Board of the University of Melbourne Humanities Foundation and has previously served as a member of the Council of Australian Art Museum Directors.
Professor Vaughan was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2011 for services to the arts and was awarded the Légion d’honneur in 2013. Senator George Brandis, Federal Minister for Arts, welcomed Professor Vaughan’s “vision and enthusiasm for the Gallery, which includes further strengthening the Gallery’s role as a leader in scholarship and research, forging stronger diplomatic ties in the South East Asia and Pacific region, and increasing access to the nation’s major art collection.”
Professor Vaughan took up the posting on 10 November, 2014.
