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- David Fleming
- Sharon Granville, Executive Director for the Museum of Liverpool
- Amy de Joia, Executive Director of Development and Communications
- Carol Rogers, Executive Director for Visitor Management
- John Millard, Executive Director for Collections/ Director of World Museum Liverpool
- Claire Harvey, Secretary to the Board of Trustees
Senior management team
- Richard Benjamin, Head of the International Slavery Museum
- Janet Dugdale, Director of Urban History
- James Hernandez, Acting Director of Development
- Tim Hughes, Head of Information Systems
- Steve Judd, Deputy Director of World Museum Liverpool
- Paul Khan, Director of Art Galleries
- Reyahn King, Director of Learning
- Sandra Penketh, Head of the Lady Lever Art Gallery
- Philippe Peyredieu du Charlat, Director of Projects
- Fiona Philpott, Director of Exhibitions
- Joanna Rowlands, Director of Marketing and Communications
- Tony Tibbles, Director of Merseyside Maritime Museum
- Ian Williams, Director of Estate Management
- Clare Wolfarth, Human Resources and Organisational Developmental Manager
- Sally Ann Yates, Director of Collections Management

David Fleming, OBE

Director

Executive team

Portrait shot of man in a suit

David became director of National Museums Liverpool in 2001. Since his arrival he has supervised the completion of two major capital projects; the £45 million Into The Future project, which included major refurbishment in the Walker Art Gallery and the creation of World Museum Liverpool, and most recently the opening of the new International Slavery Museum. He is currently overseeing the creation of the new Museum of Liverpool. Since he became Director of National Museums Liverpool audiences have more than doubled.

Before arriving in Liverpool, David was director of the multi-award-winning Tyne and Wear Museums for 11 years, where he supervised major capital developments and massive audience growth.

David is a past President of the UK Museums Association and has served on several Government committees and task forces. In 2002 he was named in the Independent on Sunday as one of the ten leading people in UK museums. He was awarded an OBE in the 1997 New Years Honours List for services to museums.

He sits on a number of boards and governing bodies, and is currently:

President of the International Committee on Museum Management
Chair of the National Museums Directors’ Conference UK Affairs Committee
Member of the Creative Apprenticeship Task Force
Member of the UK National Commission for UNESCO Culture Committee
Member of the Deputy Prime Minister’s 2007 Bicentenary of the Abolition of Slavery Advisory Group
Member of ICOM’s Advisory Council and Finance and Resources Committee
External Examiner, Leicester University Department of Museum Studies

David continues to lecture worldwide on museum management and leadership, and city history museums.

Presentations, conference papers and speeches

The following presentations, conference papers and speeches by David are available to read on this website:

Speech given at the gala dinner to celebrate the opening of the International Slavery Museum, 22 August 2007
'Transatlantic slave trade - exploring the legacy' paper given at the AFRICOM conference, 5 October 2006
Presentation to the British Embassy in New York, 9 May 2006
'Liverpool: European Capital of ...the Transatlantic Slave Trade', paper given at the annual conference of the International Association of City Museums, Amsterdam, 3 November 2005