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 – Front of House Assistant
Our Board of Trustees
- Chair – Lisa Kit Yee Yam, Partner and Solicitor at Brindle and Yam Solicitors & President of the Federation of Chinese Associations of Manchester (FCAM)
- Vice Chair – Menaka Munro, Manchester Museum Client Representative
- Treasurer, Chair of HR and Finance Committee – Graham Wiley, Head of Financial Reporting, Manchester Airport Group
- Chair of Artistic Committee -Tessa Jackson OBE, Independent Curator, writer and cultural advisor
Board members:
- Prof. Allan Walker – Dean, School of Arts and Media, University of Salford
- Kwong Lee – Producer, Manchester International Festival and Independent Contemporary Art Producer
- 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
- Nicholas James Buckley Wood – Asia Director, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
- Dr Ros Holmes – Presidential Academic Fellow in Chinese Art, University of Manchester
- Prof. Susan Pui San Lok – Professor in Contemporary Art and Director UAL Decolonising Arts Institute, University of the Arts, London