Derek Gillman is Distinguished Teaching Professor, Art History and Museum Leadership, and Executive Director, University Collections and Exhibitions, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.  Previously, Professor Gilman was Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation (2006-2013), President and Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1999-2006); Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, (1995-1999); Keeper of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, UK (1985-1995.)  Publications include The Idea of Cultural Heritage (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed., 2010, Chinese translation, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics Press, 2018) and numerous articles on art and heritage. He co-edited, with Claire Finkelstein and Frederik Rosén, The Preservation of Art and Culture in Times of War (Oxford University Press, 2022), which includes his chapter ‘Preserving valuable objects and sites, in times of war and at other times.’  Mr. Gillman served as President of the International Cultural Property Society from 2008-14. He is a longstanding member of the Association of Art Museum Directors, and a consulting scholar in the Asian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Mr. Gilman was an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford University, and studied at the Beijing Languages Institute. https://drexel.edu/westphal/about/directory/GillmanDerek/