About Philip Long OBE

Philip Long, OBE, FRSE joined the National Trust for Scotland as Chief Executive in 2020. From 2011 he was founding Director of V&A Dundee, which opened in 2018 as a new international museum with a mission to enrich people's lives through understanding of the designed world, its heritage, and its vital role in our future. Prior to V&A Dundee, Philip was Senior Curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. His academic specialization is in historic and contemporary Scottish and wider British art and design, on which he has curated many exhibitions and written widely. He was co-editor of The Story of Scottish Design (published in 2018), the first comprehensive history of Scotland's design heritage. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of St. Andrews University, a member of the British Council's Arts and Creative Economy Committee, and a Board member of Creative Scotland. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 2019 was the recipient of a unique award for Transforming Scotland from the Institute of Directors. He received an OBE in the New Year's Honor List in 2020 for services to Culture and Heritage.

About Tony Jones CBE

Tony Jones is an internationally known arts administrator, broadcaster, writer, educator and historian of art, architecture, and design.  His illustrious career has included being Director of the Glasgow School of Art, the Royal College of Art, London and serving as president at both the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and the Art Institute of Kansas where he retired from in 2022.  Tony was conferred the Commander of the British Empire in 2000.  He has also been awarded the Austrian Cross for services to education in Europe and has received six honorary doctorate degrees from leading arts universities in Britain, Europe, the U.S. and Asia.