Penelope Curtis

Penelope Curtis is a British arts administrator, director of Lisbon's Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, and director of Tate Britain from 2010 to 2015.

Educated first in a state school and then at Oxford University, she took "Sculpture after Rodin" as the subject of her doctorate.

She was previously director of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds.

In March 2015, it was announced that she would leave London's Tate Britain after five years in charge.