23 December 2005
The Prime Minister has re-appointed Professor Ludmilla Jordanova and Sir Christopher Ondaatje CBE OC to the Board of the National Portrait Gallery for a period of 4 years from 7 December 2005 and 19 December 2005.
Biographical Note
Professor Ludmilla Jordanova has been Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge since October 2003 and also a Fellow of Downing College. Before that, Professor Jordanova had been Professor of Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia since 1996. On 1st January 2006, she will be taking up the chair in Modern History at King’s College, London. She has been President of the British Society for the History of Science, and a Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society. She was formerly Professor of Cultural History at the University of York, and previously held professorial, lecturer and research posts at Essex, Oxford and Cambridge. She specialises in visual culture, and has published widely, including on the practice of history.
Professor Ludmilla Jordanova has not been involved in any political activity in the past five years.
Sir Christopher Ondaatje CBE OC is an author and retired investment banker. Most recently he was President and Chairman of Pagurian Corporation Ltd and Vice President and Chairman of Loewen, Ondaatje, McCutcheon & Co, both of which are companies he founded. He has served on a number of education and business boards and has been involved through donations in a range of cultural and educational institutions. Included among these is the National Portrait Gallery, to which he donated a significant sum toward the Ondaatje Wing, opened in May 2000. He has continued to be actively involved in Gallery affairs since making the donation in 1995. He was a member of the Canadian 1964 Olympic Bob-Sled Team, and is a life member of Somerset County Cricket Club. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Advisory Board of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Sir Christopher Ondaatje has not been involved in any political activity in the past five years.
Notes for Editors
The National Portrait Gallery holds the largest and most distinguished collection of portraits in the world. As an institution it fulfils a number of roles relating to the historic and contemporary aspects of this collection: a research and academic role, an educational role and a wider role within public life.
Trustees are not remunerated.
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