Neil MacGregor

DIRECTOR, BRITISH MUSEUM

A hugely influential mover and shaker in the art world, Glasgow-born Neil MacGregor is the director of the British Museum, the oldest public museum in the world. Having studied Modern Languages at Oxford, Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure and then Law at Edinburgh, MacGregor decided late on to pursue art, only taking an Art History degree after being called to the bar. After a Master’s, a teaching post at Reading University and a post as editor of The Burlington Magazine, he became director of the National Gallery in 1987, and then the British Museum in 2002. He has been praised for his diplomacy, steadfastness in resisting the Parthenon Sculptures’ appropriation as ‘nationalistic political symbol’, and for their recent loan to Russia. He is also an influential author and presenter on television and radio.

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