Thomas P. Campbell

Assumed the post of Director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in November 2018. Served from 2009 to 2017 as the Director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), one of the world's largest art galleries, with a permanent collection of more than two million works. Formerly he was a curator with a specialty in European tapestry, organizing ground-breaking tapestry exhibitions. He was also supervising curator of The Antonio Ratti Textile Center, which houses the Met's collection of 36,000 textiles. Before his arrival at the Met, he created the Franses Tapestry Archive in London, which, with more than 120,000 images, is the largest information resource on European tapestries and figurative textiles in the world. His early research culminated in several research articles and a Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute (1999) on the art and culture of King Henry VIII's court. He has lectured and taught extensively on European court patronage and the relation of tapestries to the other arts. He has also published extensively on the subject of historic European textiles and their relationship to other art forms of their periods.