Our Team

Who we are

Executive team

• Zoe Dunbar – Director
• Margaret Hobbs – Finance Manager

Curatorial team

• Marianna Tsionki– Senior Curator
• Francesca Bibby – Interim Assistant Curator
• Alistair Small – Programme and Engagement Coordinator
• Vanessa Lam – Age-Friendly Projects Coordinator
• Katie Waring – Archivist

Development and Marketing team

• Victoria Emms – Development and Marketing Manager
• Nicole Peeters – Marketing and Communications Coordinator
• Rachel de Ridder – Business Development Coordinator

Operations team

• James Byrom – Operations Manager
• Geoff Tabbron – Technical Coordinator
• Abbie Hawkins – Volunteer Project Coordinator

Our Board of Trustees

• Lisa Kit Yee Yam (Chair) – Partner and Solicitor at Brindle and Yam Solicitors & President of the Federation of Chinese Associations of Manchester (FCAM)
• Menaka Munro (Vice Chair) – Manchester Museum Client Representative
• Graham Wiley (Treasurer, Chair of HR and Finance Committee) – Head of Financial Reporting, Manchester Airport Group
• Tessa Jackson OBE (Chair of Artistic Committee) – Independent Curator, writer and cultural advisor
• Kwong Lee – Producer, Manchester International Festival and Independent Contemporary Art Producer
• Prof. Allan Walker – Dean, School of Arts and Media, University of Salford
• James Turner – Head of Sector Marketing, Marketing Manchester
• Patrick Alexander – Head of Marketing, Manchester Airport Group
• Christopher Yen Sing Lau – Head of Inward Investment GFirst LEP
• Prof. Susan Pui San Lok – Professor in Contemporary Art and Director UAL Decolonising Arts Institute, University of the Arts, London
• Nicholas James Buckley Wood – Asia Director, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Artistic Committee:

Tessa Jackson OBE, Prof. Allan Walker, Prof. Susan Pui San Lok, Kwong Lee, Nicholas James Buckley Wood, Lisa Kit Yee Yam. Co-opted member: Prof. Wessie Ling (Professor of Transcultural Arts and Design, London Metropolitan University).

Finance & HR Committee

Graham Wiley, James Turner, Patrick Alexander, Christopher Yen Sing Lau, Lisa Kit Yee Yam.