Judith White was Executive Director of the members’ organisation, the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales, from 2000 to 2008 and again in 2014 and 2015, and is author of the Society’s history Art Lovers. Born in Lancashire, England, she holds two degrees from Oxford University, has worked in journalism and publishing and speaks Spanish, French and Italian. Cultural history remains her abiding interest and was the theme of the Society’s first-ever members’ tour to Cuba which she led in 2015. She lives in northern New South Wales.