Timothy Potts

Timothy Potts
Born	Sydney, Australia
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Citizenship	Australia, United Kingdom
Fields	Arts, Philosophy
Institutions	J. Paul Getty Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, Kimbell Museum, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, La Trobe University, National Gallery of Victoria,
Alma mater	University of Sydney (BA Hon) University of Oxford (DPhil)

J. Paul Getty Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, Kimbell Museum, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, La Trobe University,

University of Sydney (BA Hon)

Dr. Timothy Potts is an Australian art historian, archaeologist, and museum director. He became the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum on 1 September 2012.

Timothy Potts was educated at the University of Sydney (BA Hons) and holds a DPhil in Near Eastern art and archaeology from the University of Oxford, where he was a research lecturer and British Academy Research Fellow in Near Eastern Archaeology and Art at Christ Church, Oxford (1985–90). His research interests are Ancient Near Eastern art history, archaeology and history; museology; the classical tradition in western art.

Dr. Potts acted as co-director of the University of Sydney excavations at Pella, Jordan from 1982 to 1989. He worked at Lehman Brothers in New York from 1990 to 1994 following which became director of the National Gallery of Victoria (1994–1998). In conjunction with his directorship at the National Gallery of Victoria, Timothy was Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University, and a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He was the Director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas from 1998 to 2007 and the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England from 2007 to 2012.

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