Deborah Swallow, English historian and curator
Professor Deborah Anne Swallow (born 27 August 1948) is a British educator, museum curator and academic. Since 2004, she has been Märit Rausing Director of The Courtauld Institute of Art and its Gallery; she is its first female Director. She previously worked at the University of Cambridge and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Alongside education and curation, she is a proponent of the broadest possible appreciation of art and its histories, and a specialist in Indian art and anthropology.