Having graduated from ESSEC Business School in France, Alice Black began her career in banking in New York. Black’s experience in the UK spans work in the public and private sector, in large, multi-site national museums as well as independent museums. Formerly Head of Strategy and Planning at the Imperial War Museum and Curator of the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms, Black has in-depth knowledge of museums’ strategic and operational issues.

In September 2007, Black was appointed Deputy Director of the Design Museum, with a brief to develop audiences and increase self-generated income. This brief was later expanded to include exhibitions and programming. Over the last eight years, Black has led the museum’s project to transform the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington High Street, into the new home for the Design Museum, and create the leading museum of contemporary design and architecture. The museum’s new home will reopen on 24 November 2016.

Speaker:

Alice Black

Deputy Director, The Design Museum, UK

Moderator:

Marisa Yiu

Founding Partner, ESKYIU, HK