Museum Director Sir Michael Dixon reports to the Board of Trustees. Eight of the 12 Trustees are appointed by the Prime Minister and one (Royal Society Trustee) by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The remaining three are appointed by the board itself.
The running of the museum is the responsibility of the Executive board under the Museum Director. This is composed of the Museum Director, the Director of Science (Prof Ian Owens), the Director of Public Engagement (Dr Justin Morris), the Director of Finance and Corporate Services (Neil Greenwood) and the Director of Development Group (Fiona McWilliams).
The government provides grant-in-aid to the museum via the DCMS, which supplies the majority of the museum’s externally sourced funding.
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