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Doctor Malcolm Rogers CBE is a University of Oxford graduate and art historian with an expertise in portraiture. Since then, he spent several years at the National Portrait Gallery as Deputy Director before moving to USA in 1994 where he served as the Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston for over two decades; becoming the longest-serving Director in the MFA's 144-year history. While there, he expanded its opening hours, granted free admission to children, increased the encyclopaedic collection with nearly 68,000 additions and presided over more than 375 exhibitions, including Tales from the Land of Dragons: 1000 Years of Chinese Painting (1997), Monet in the 20th Century (1998), Speed, Style, and Beauty: Cars from the Ralph Lauren Collection (2005), Americans in Paris, 1869-1900 (2006), Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice (2009), Degas and the Nude (2011) and Goya: Order and Disorder (2014). Malcolm oversaw several large-scale projects while at the MFA which aided in increasing the museum's capacity and establishing its position within the community. He reopened both the Museum's Huntington Avenue entrance in 1995 and the Fenway entrance, becoming the State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance, in 2008, with the latter being closed for nearly 30 years. Malcolm led the Building the New MFA Campaign, raising $504 million used towards building and endowment of the Art of the Americas Wing, designed by Foster and Partners, which opened in November 2010. He additionally purchased the Forsyth Institute Building, planned as a study centre, and renovated the west-facing Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art in 2011. Now retired, Malcolm also sits on the Board of Trustees of the Worcester Art Museum, The Auckland Project. Malcolm sits on the Nominations Committee.