Independent advisor & panel
biographiesAlice Rawsthorn
Director of the Design Museum and former Financial Times journalist.Alice Rawsthorn is Director of the Design Museum. She is an architecture and design critic and prominent spokesperson on design issues. Before joining the Design Museum in April 2001 Alice was a journalist with the Financial Times and the author of a critically acclaimed biography of the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. She is a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Chair of the British Council’s Design Advisory Group and the lead advisor on the visual arts to the Arts Council.