Ballot Archive

30 Jan 2025

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

John David Sebastian Booth

Academic degrees, honours etc.

CVO, DL, MA (Oxon), FRSA

Profession or occupation

Chairman, National Gallery

Grounds for election

John Booth is chairman of both the National Gallery and The Prince’s Trust, and a trustee of the Chatsworth Settlement, the Arts Foundation and several other charities. He also chairs the Arts and Media Honours Committee. John read Modern Languages at Oxford University and is a Fellow of Merton College and a member of the Chancellor’s Court. He is a non-executive director of several companies in the telecoms and investment management sectors and has a range of venture capital interests in e-commerce, media and technology. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. John acts as an ambassador for the homelessness charity Depaul International and is a Deputy Lieutenant for West Sussex

Signatories

The following Fellows have signed this Blue Paper