Secretary and Chief Executive, Royal Academy of Arts
Charles Saumarez Smith was born in 1954
and was educated at Marlborough and King’s College,
Cambridge, where he was a scholar and got a double
first in history and history of art. After graduating,
he spent a year at Harvard University as a Henry Fellow
studying at the Fogg Art Museum and then returned to
the Warburg Institute as a postgraduate student. In
1979, he was elected Christie’s Research Fellow
at Christ’s College, Cambridge and, in 1982,
he joined the staff of the Victoria and Albert Museum
as an Assistant Keeper with special responsibility
for V&A/RCA MA in the History of Design. In 1990,
he was appointed Director of the National Portrait
Gallery and, in 2002, Director of the National Gallery. |
