British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Miss Rosalind Savill
Director, The Wallace Collection

Year elected: 2006

She is internationally acknowledged as a major authority on the French decorative arts. She has transformed the Wallace Collection, injecting it with a powerful sense of its mission in both disseminating and increasing understanding of the eighteenth century, and has built up programmes of imaginative exhibitions, scholarly seminars and lectures, and an ambitious scheme of changes in display.