Paul Thompson (rector)
| Dr Paul Thompson FRSA | |
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| Rector of the Royal College of Art | |
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Assumed office 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Sir Christopher Frayling |
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| Born | 9 August 1959 |
| Alma mater |
University of Bristol University of East Anglia |
Dr Paul Warwick Thompson FRSA (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 1987–88. He then joined the Design Museum as Curator of Contemporary Design and in 1993–2001 was its Director.[2]
In 2001–09 he was Director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian 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 and Albert Museum, London, and on the Board of Visitors of the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford. He is a member of the Wellcome Collection Programme Advisory Committee at the Wellcome Trust, London. He is an Adjunct Professor at Imperial College's Institute for Global Health Innovation and co directs the Helix Centre with Professor Lord Ara Darzi. The Helix Centre is a design research centre which devises low-cost, high impact healthcare solutions, based in St Mary's Hospital, London.
References
- 1 2 Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Director to Step Down in '09, Washington Post, 22 Nov 2008
- 1 2 Paul Warwick Thompson, Director Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, October 2001
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