Sir Tristram Hunt
Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
Sir Tristram Hunt is Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) —a family of museums dedicated to celebrating the power of creativity across art, design and performance. As Director since 2017, Sir Tristram has championed the role of design education in UK schools, encouraged debate around the history of global and colonial collections, and overseen the transition to a multi-site museum covering six sites across the UK: V&A South Kensington, Young V&A, V&A Dundee, V&A Wedgwood Collection, V&A East Storehouse and V&A East Museum. Previously a Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central and Shadow Secretary of State for Education, he holds a doctorate in Victorian history from Cambridge University. Sir Tristram is the author of several books including works of urban and imperial history, as well as biographies of Friedrich Engels, Josiah Wedgwood, and an overview of the V&A collections, The Lives of the Objects (2019).