Hannah Mary Rothschild

Hannah Rothschild is a writer, filmmaker, company director, and philanthropist. She was the first woman to serve as Chair of the Board of Trustees of The National Gallery of Art in London from 2015 to 2020. Her first book, The Baroness , a biography of her great aunt, was published in 2012. The Improbability of Love (2015), her first novel, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for best comic novel and was runner up to the Bailey ’ s Prize for fiction. The House of Trelawney, a novel, was published in 2020. Her documentary features have been shown on major public networks including the BBC, HBO, PBS and also at film festivals. Her screenplays have been optioned by Working Title and Ridley Scott and her books are being adapted for the large and small screen. She writes for magazines and newspapers including The Times of London, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Bazaar. The co-founder of the charity Artists on Film, she has lectured at the Courtauld, the Royal Academy, the Getty Institute, The Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery on art, literature and film. Rothschild is formerly a trustee of the Tate, Whitechapel and the ICA. She serves on the board of various charitable foundations in the UK and abroad, including Waddesdon Manor, the Rothschild Foundation, and Yad Hanadiv, where she is currently Chair of the Board. She is a non-executive director of RIT Capital Partners plc and Windmill Hill Asset Management Ltd.