Charlotte Appleyard

Charlotte Appleyard is Director of Development & Business Innovation at the Royal Academy of Arts. She previously worked at Outset Contemporary Art Fund, and in the curatorial departments at The National Gallery in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

In 2006 she contributed to ‘Manet to Picasso’, published by The National Gallery and in 2012 she published ‘Corporate Art Collections: A Handbook’, a history and survey of corporate collections. She served as a trustee of Turner Contemporary in Margate, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and sat on the Evening Standard London Recovery Board.

She currently sits on the advisory board of the Centre for Entrepreneurs and is a trustee of the Marylebone Cricket Club Foundation. She is currently working on a book on the history of creativity and is a graduate of Oxford University, the Courtauld Institute and Harvard Business School.