People

Find out who our trustees and senior management team are, and learn more about our curatorial staff and their backgrounds.

The Horniman Museum and Gardens’ team of curators and experts cover a wide range of topics from marine biology, world cultures, gardening, the animal world, and the history of music making and instruments.

Museum and Gardens staff are actively involved in researching the collections and fieldwork, and collecting in their areas of specialism, resulting in publications, conference presentations, exhibitions, broadcasts and film.

Senior Management Team

Gordon Seabright smiles into the camera as he leans on a table in his office

Gordon Seabright

Chief Executive
Peronel Craddock portrait at the Horniman

Peronel Craddock

Director of Content
Annie Duffield

Annie Duffield

Director, Audiences and Income
A shot of the exterior of the Horniman - a large pale yellow stone clocktower with rounded edges, a building next to it with a curved roof and a mosaic, and a third structure closer to the camera with a peaked roof, made of similar stone. There is a path along the front of all three with flower beds featuring green and purple flowers in front of the camera. The sky is blue

Michelle Edward

Director of Finance and Corporate Services
A woman stands in front of a low hedge, with a garden behind it. She is wearing a blue dress, and has white hair and glasses

Kirsten Walker

Director, Collections Care and Estates

Curatorial

Errol Fernandes in the Horniman Gardens

Errol Reuben Fernandes

Head of Horticulture
Korantema Anyimadu in the World gallery

Korantema Anyimadu

Senior Curator of Anthropology (job share)
Louis Buckley

Louis Buckley

Senior Curator, Nature + Love
Portrait of Saava Benjamin Busenze Balagadde in the Music Gallery

Saava Benjamin Busenze Balagadde

Assistant Curator of Musical Collections and Cultures
A man in a blue top is seen from the chest up in front of a large aquarium stank with small fishes and corals in it

Jamie Craggs

Aquarium Curator and Living Collections Manager
Hartley George in the Aquarium

Hartley George

Assistant Aquarium Curator
A woman seen from the waist up is wearing a blue jacket and is smiling. She is stood in front of some blue museum cases with taxidermy animals in them like fish, deer and antelope

Jo Hatton

Principal Curator of Natural Sciences
Chris Hughes stands on the Natural History balcony

Chris Hughes

Assistant Curator, Natural Sciences, Nature + Love
A man wearing an orange jumper and round glasses stands in a gallery, in front of a display case. He has dark hair and facial hair

Navjot Mangat

Senior Curator of Social Practice
A woman standing behind an open piano, smiling. She is wearing a pink scarf

Mimi S Waitzman

Senior Curator of Musical Collections and Cultures

Trustees

Michael Salter-Church MBE

Michael Salter-Church MBE

Trustee (Chair)
Diana Maine portrait

Diana Maine

Trustee
Eva Appelbaum headshot

Eva Appelbaum

Trustee
A woman seen from the shoulders up stands outside in the sunlight smiling. She stands in front of a stone building

Mayowa Ochere

Trustee
Nick Wyver

Nick Wyver

Trustee
A man in a suit stands unsmiling in front of a pale backdrop

Nico Iacuzzi

Trustee
Trustee Roma Dibua

Roma Dibua

Trustee
A man is seen from the knee up sitting in a chair with one arm resting on the back of it. He is wearing a suit and is sitting indoors.

Simon Hesketh

Trustee
Yesomi Umolu

Yesomi Umolu

Trustee

Heads of Section

A shadow puppet made of very thin paper, as seen through a glass case. the puppet is wearing an ornate red outfit and we see only the face but it is hard to tell whether they are male or female

Managerial staff