28 March 2002
The Prime Minister has appointed Sir John Kerr GCMG as a Trustee of the National Gallery with effect from 1st March 2002 for a period of four years.
Notes for Editors
Sir John Kerr was Permanent-Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Head of the Diplomatic Service from 1997 until early 2002. Previously he was UK Permanent Representative to the EU from 1990 to 1995, and Ambassador to the USA from 1995 to 1997. He was appointed Secretary General of the European Convention established by EU Heads of Government at Laeken in December 2001. He was a Trustee of the British Council from 1997 until earlier this year, and he has been a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust for the last five years.
The post is not remunerated.
The National Gallery houses the nation’s prime collection of European paintings from the 13th to the 19thcenturies. It includes representative collections of the French, Italian, Dutch, Flemish, German and Spanish schools, together with some British works up to the mid-19th century.
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