Dr Paul Warwick Thompson (born Oxford 9 August 1959) is rector of the Royal College of Art in London, England.[1]
He was educated at Bryanston School, the University of Bristol (BA) and the University of East Anglia (MA, PhD).[2]
He worked as a scriptwriter and researcher for the Design Council from 1987 to 1988. He then joined the Design Museum as Curator of Contemporary Design and from 1993 -2001 served as its Director.[2]
From 2001 - 2009, he served as director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City. In 2009 he took up his current post at the Royal College of Art.[1] He is a Trustee of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and on the Board of Visitors of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. He is a member of the Wellcome Collection Programme Advisory Committee at the Wellcome Trust, London.