Axel Rüger

Axel Rüger is the Secretary and CEO of the Royal Academy of Arts. He joined the Royal Academy in 2019, just after its 250th anniversary.

Rüger spent his early career in museums in the US. Then in 1999 he became curator of Dutch Paintings at the National Gallery in London. He took over as Director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2006 and, over the next 14 years helped it become one of the most successful museums in the world.