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- David Fleming, Director
- Sharon Granville, Executive Director for the Museum of Liverpool
- Amy de Joia, Executive Director of Development and Communications
- Michael Lawrie-Simmons, Executive Director of Finance
- Carol Rogers, Executive Director for Visitor Management
- John Millard, Executive Director for Collections/ Director of World Museum Liverpool
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- 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
- 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
- Tony Tibbles, Director of Merseyside Maritime Museum
- Ian Williams, Director of Estates Management
- Clare Wolfarth, Human Resources and Organisational Developmental Manager
- Sally Ann Yates, Director of Collections Management

Fiona Philpott

Director of Exhibitions

Senior management team

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Fiona graduated from Leeds University in 1982 with a joint honours degree in history and archaeology and began her museum career as a volunteer at the Williamson Museum and Art Gallery in Birkenhead.

In 1983 she joined Merseyside County Museums, which later became National Museums Liverpool, as a graduate trainee with placements in archaeology, antiquities, conservation, education, ethnology and social history. During this period she studied for her AMA, which she was awarded in 1987.

In subsequent years she was appointed as assistant keeper of antiquities and later curator of British antiquities and numismatics. In 1996 she joined the capital projects team, before moving to her present position in 2003.