Venice Biennale, American Pavilion, June 2009
Courtauld alumni of all generations have gone on to find remarkable success in any number of fields.  From their successes as museum directors, curators, academics and conservators, as well as lawyers, publishers, journalists, musicians, politicians and teachers, our graduates are proof that a Courtauld degree is excellent preparation for the future.

The film produced for the Campaign for the Courtauld features a number of Courtauld alumni discussing how their education has shaped their lives. 
View the film.

While the success stories of alumni could fill a book, examples of some of our most distinguished graduates are listed below:

Art critics and journalists
 Andrew Graham-Dixon, Art critic and presenter
Tim Marlow, Presenter and Director of Exhibitions, White Cube
Cristina Ruiz, Editor, The Art Newspaper
Brian Sewell, Art critic
Alastair Sooke, Art critic and presenter

Art dealers
Dany Ardouin, Director, Helly Nahmad Gallery
Charles and Amanda Beddington, Directors, Beddington Fine Art
Kristine Bell, Director and Partner, Zwirner & Wirth
Bona Colonna Montagu, Director, Simon C Dickinson Ltd
Emmanuel di Donna, Director, Blain | DiDonna
Marc Domenech-Tomas, Owner, Galeria Oriol, Barcelona
Paula Feldman Sankoff, Director of Sales, Victoria Miro
Sam Fogg, Owner, Samuel Fogg Ltd
Michael Goedhuis, Owner, Goedhuis Contemporary
Cornelia Grassi, Director, Greengrassi
Beth Greenacre, Director, Rokeby Gallery
Gilbert Guy Lloyd, Director, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd
Angus Haldane, Founder, Haldane Fine Art
Sara Harrison, Director, Hauser & Wirth, London
Simon Hucker, Director, Jonathan Clark Fine Art
James Hyman, Director, James Hyman Gallery
Stuart Lochhead, Director, Daniel Katz Ltd
Patrick Matthiesen, Director, Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd
Nina Miall, Director, Haunch of Venison
Lucy Mitchell-Inness, Director, Mitchell-Inness & Nash and President, Art Dealers’
Association of America
Emmanuel Moatti, Founder, Moatti Find Art
Helly Nahmad, Owner, Helly Nahmed Gallery
Flavia Ormond, Owner/Director, Flavia Ormond Fine Arts
Christina Shearman, Director, Yvon Lambert Gallery
Leslie Waddington, Director, Waddington Galleries
Clovis Whitfield, Owner, Whitfield Fine Art Ltd
Max Wigram, Art dealer & Director of the Max Wigram Gallery

Art historians and academics
 Brian Allen, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Christopher Breward, Principal of Edinburgh College of Art
Norman Bryson, Art historian
Nigel Carrington, Rector, University of the Arts London
T J Clark, Art historian
RoseLee Goldberg, Art historian and founder of Performa
Christopher Green, Art historian
Jos Hackforth-Jones, Director, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London
Colum Hourihane, Director, Princeton University, Index of Christian Art
John House, Art historian
Wu Jinding, Pre-eminent Chinese archaeologist (deceased)
Griselda Pollock, Art historian
Pat Rubin, Director, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Artists and architects
 Jeremy Deller, Artist, winner of 2004 Turner Prize
Giacomo Faludi, Architect (deceased)
Alan Halliday, Artist
Chris Kenny, Artist
Jeff Wall, Artist

Arts Organisation Directors
 Noah Charney, Founding Director, ARCA (Association for the Research into Crimes
Against Art)
Andrew Derrick, Director, The Architectural History Practice
Jonathan Foyle, CEO, World Monuments Fund Britain
Rebecca Heald, Director, New Contemporaries
Shauna Isaac, Director, Trace Looted Art
Claire Marmion, Director, AIG Art Collection Management
Stacy Tenenbaum Stark, Executive Director, Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Ruth Ur, Head of Arts and Development, British Council

Auction house professionals
 Richard Aronowitz-Mercer, Head of Restitution, Sotheby’s London
Denise Bethel, Senior Vice President and Director of Photography, Sotheby’s New York
Oliver Barker, Senior Director, Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s London
Laura Doyle, Doyle New York, Auctioneers and Appraisers
Diana Herzog, President, RM Smythe
Alexander Kader, Director and Head of European Sculpture, Sotheby’s London
Claire McKeon, Vice-President for British, Irish and Sporting Art, Christie’s London
Claude Piening, Senior Director, 19th Century European Paintings, Sotheby’s London
Christina Prescott-Walker, Senior Vice-President and Department Director, Chinese
Ceramic and Works of Art, Sotheby’s New York
Simon Shaw, Senior Director of Impressionist and Modern Art, Sotheby’s London
David Silcox, President, Sotheby’s Canada
Jonathan Stone, Chairman, Christie’s Asia
John Tancock, Senior Vice President, Sotheby’s New York
Letizia Treves, Senior Director in Old Master Paintings, Sotheby’s London

Business and law
 Erica Bolton, Founding Partner, Bolton & Quinn
David Freud, Entrepreneur
Nicola Harper, Director, Pussy Home Boutique
Lorna Harrington, Director, Barrett, Corp & Harrington Ltd
Georgiana Head, Founding Director, Georgiana Head Recruitment
James McDonaugh, Owner, Art Tours Ltd
Daniel McClean, Solicitor, Withers Worldwide
Martin Randall, Director, Martin Randall Travel Ltd
Calum Sutton, Director, Calum Sutton PR

Conservation experts
 Aviva Burnstock, Head of Conservation and Technology, The Courtauld
Gabriele Finaldi, Director of Conservation and Research, Museo del Prado
Lynne Harrison, Senior Conservator, The British Museum
Narayan Khandekar, Senior Conservation Specialist, Harvard University Art Museums
Thomas Learner, Head of Contemporary Art Research, Getty Conservation Institute
Sally Lescher, Director, Conservation Management Ltd
Alison Lister, Director and Principal Conservator, Textile Conservation Ltd
Ann-Marie Miller, Book Conservator, The British Library
Michael Alan Miller, Paintings Conservator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lesley Stevenson, Senior Paintings Conservator, National Galleries of Scotland
Paul Schwartzbaum, Senior Conservator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Katherine Stonor and Sharon Tager, Founders and Directors, Tager Stonor Richardson
Joyce Townsend, Senior Conservation Scientist, Tate
Rachel Turnbull, Senior Collections Conservator, English Heritage

Entertainment Industry
 Simon Banner, Hollywood Film Producer
Atticus Ross, Musician, 2010 Academy Award for Original Soundtrack, The Social Network

Gallery, museum and heritage directors
 Graham Beal, Director, Detroit Institute of Arts
Alan Bowness, art critic, academic and former Director of Tate
Fiona Bradley, Director, Fruitmarket Gallery
Christopher Brown, Director, Ashmolean Museum
Katherine Bush, Head of Art Galleries, The Barbican
Richard Calvocoressi, Director, Henry Moore Foundation
Thomas Campbell, Director and CEO, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Timothy Clifford, Former Director, National Galleries of Scotland
Lynne Cooke, Chief Curator, Museo Reina Sofia, and Curator-at-Large, Dia Art Foundation
Tarnya Cooper, Chief Curator, National Portrait Gallery
Penelope Curtis, Director, Tate Britain
Maurice Davies, Deputy Director, Museums Association
Anne D’Harnoncourt, Former Director, Philadelphia Museum of Art (deceased)
David Elliott, Former Director, Istanbul Modern Art Museum; Artistic Director, 2010
Sydney Biennale
Kaywin Feldman, Director and President, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
David Franklin, Director, Cleveland Museum of Art
Paul Greenhalgh, Director, Sainsbury Centre
William Griswold, Director, The Morgan Library and Museum
Simon Groom, Director, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Christoph Grunenberg, Director, Kunsthalle Bremem
Jenny Harper, Director, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand
Athalsteinn Ingolfsson, Director, Museum of Design and Applied Art, Mudesa, Iceland
Sir Mark Jones, Former Director, Victoria and Albert Museum
Timothy Knox, Director, Sir John Soane Museum
Lilly Koltun, Director, Portrait Gallery of Canada
Janet Landay, Executive Director, Association of American Museum Directors
John Leighton, Director General, National Galleries of Scotland
Neil MacGregor, Director, British Museum
Ian McClure, Former Director, Hamilton Kerr Institute
David McTavish, Director, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Canada
Caroline Morley, Head of Arts Council Collections, Southbank Centre, London
Frances Morris, Head of International Collections, Tate Modern
Dr Hans Ottomeyer, Director of Deutsches Historisches Museum
Ratan Parimoo, Director, LD Museum and NC Metha Gallery
Nicholas Penny, Director, National Gallery London
Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate
Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, Royal Collection
Alan Shestack, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Laurence Sillars, Chief Curator, BALTIC Centre, Newcastle
Ann Sumner, Director, Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Jean Sutherland Boggs, first woman to direct a national gallery (National Gallery of
Canada)
Michael Taylor, Director, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth University
Matthew Teitelbaum, Director, Art Gallery of Ontario
Pierre Theberge, Director, Musee Beaux Arts de Montreal
Simon Thurley, CEO, English Heritage
Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen, Head of The Courtauld Galleries
John Wilson, Director, Timkin Museum of Art
Matthias Winner, Director, Bibliotheca Hertziana
Ari Wiseman, Deputy Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Politicians
 Nancy Lee Johnson, Congresswoman from 1983-2007, Connecticut, USA

Publishers and editors
 Simon Bradley, Editor, Pevsner Architectural Guides
David Cohen, Editor/Publisher, Art Critical Online
Anthony Rushton, Founder/Art Editor of Private Eye
Robin Simon, Founding editor, British Art Journal
Anna Somers Cocks, Founder Editor, The Art Newspaper and Chairman, Venice in Peril
Peter Trippi, Editor, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine

Royalty
 Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, Member of the Royal Family of Jordan
Narisa Levy, Member of the Royal Family of Thailand

Writers
 Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-winning novelist and art historian
Nell Dunn, Writer
Lucy Ellmann, Novelist
Lavinia Greenlaw, Poet & novelist
Alexandra Harris, Writer, winner of 2010 Guardian First Book Award
Nicole Krauss, Novelist
Iain Sinclair, Novelist
Giles Waterfield, Novelist and art historian
Frank Whitford, Writer & critic