Leadership & Governance

Meet the leaders who guide the vision and operation of the Trust

A group of ten middle-age, light-skin tone adults wearing business casual clothing pose smiling for a photo, the front row seated and back row standing, with a large, stone museum in the background

J. Paul Getty Trust Officers and Directors (June 2023)
Back row (l to r): Joan Weinstein, Mary Miller, Tim Whalen, James Williams, Lisa Lapin, Janet McKillop
Front row (l to r): Steve Olsen, Elizabeth Smith, Katherine Fleming, Stephen Clark
Not pictured: David Hughes, William Humphries, Benjamin Liou, Timothy Potts, Jenn Stringer, Kim Uyttewaal

Trust Officers

  1. Katherine E. Fleming

    President and CEO

    Katherine E. Fleming assumed her post as president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust on August 1, 2022. An accomplished academic leader and internationally recognized scholar of Mediterranean history, religion, and culture, she served as provost of New York University from 2016 to 2022. She was instrumental in NYU’s development as a research powerhouse and in its emergence as one of the world’s most global institutions, leading NYU’s strategy in Europe.

    She has served as Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization at NYU, and as a long-standing associate professor of history at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. From 2012–2016, she chaired the Board of the University of Piraeus, Greece. An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is also Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor and Commander in the Greek Order of Beneficence.

    Fleming began her career in California, earning her doctorate at UC Berkeley and then teaching at various institutions in Southern California before going to NYU in 1998.

  2. Stephen W. Clark

    Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Trustees

    Stephen W. Clark joined the Trust as vice president and general counsel in April 2008. Clark came to Getty from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), where he was deputy general counsel. In his nearly 14 years of service to MoMA, he served as associate general counsel, acting general counsel and secretary, and assistant general counsel.

    Clark was president of the Museum Association of New York, participated on several committees of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and has served on the faculty of the American Law Institute/American Bar Association. Clark graduated from Hamilton College and Fordham University School of Law.

  3. David Hughes

    Assistant Treasurer and Managing Director

    David Hughes is the assistant treasurer and managing director at the J. Paul Getty Trust. He currently manages the absolute return, private credit, and fixed income portfolios and is responsible for overall portfolio liquidity. He previously managed the public equity portfolio and collaborated on the real estate and energy portfolios. Prior to Getty, he managed a $35 billion portfolio of public equity managers for the University of California's endowment and pension. In 2001, David finished an MBA at Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. After business school, he worked for Banc of America Securities’ Prime Brokerage division and studied for a year in graduate economics at the London School of Economics. David has a BS in economics, a BA in administrative studies, and a minor in international relations from the University of California, Riverside.

  4. William Humphries

    Controller

    William Humphries was appointed acting controller in February 2009. He became controller in April 2009. He is a CPA with 19 years of experience who worked most recently for Ticketmaster as their domestic controller. Prior to that he worked as the controller for the Consumer Products Group at NBC Universal and the controller for the Digital Studio Division at Sony Pictures Entertainment. He started his career at Grant Thornton and Deloitte & Touche. He graduated from California State University at Northridge with a B.S. in business administration and a major in accounting.

  5. Benjamin Liou

    Managing Director, Equities & Bonds and Assistant Treasurer

    Benjamin Liou joined the Trust in October 2001 and is the managing director for the public equities, private equities, and bond portfolios. He was appointed as assistant treasurer in June 2010.

    Prior to joining Getty, Liou was an investment banking executive at Nomura Securities in their Tokyo and New York offices. While at Nomura, he was responsible for implementing British privatizations and equities transactions in the telecommunications and pharmaceuticals sectors. He was also a country relationship manager for China, Indonesia, and Vietnam, providing financial advisory services to various government agencies.

    Additionally, he has been vice president of IT mergers & acquisitions in Chicago and a principal at GCM Capital Markets in Irvine. Liou has a B.A. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He also has a J.D. from the University of Southern California, where he was a member of Law Review, and an M.B.A. from the Drucker School of Management at the Claremont Graduate School, where he was a Mayr Scholar.

  6. Steven A. Olsen

    Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Operating Officer

    Steven A. Olsen joined Getty in July 2018 as vice president, chief financial officer (CFO), and chief operating officer (COO). An accomplished financial executive, Olsen was the vice chancellor and CFO at UCLA, in addition to treasurer and finance committee chairman of Hammer Museum, before joining Getty.

    He also served as chief deputy director for the California Department of General Services, serving as COO for the state’s procurement, real estate, and telecommunications services, as well as deputy director of the California Department of Finance. Olsen holds a B.A. in political science and economics from UCLA and a master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Public Policy.

  7. Jenn Stringer

    Vice President and Chief Digital Officer

    Jenn Stringer joined Getty in July 2023 as vice president and chief digital officer. She oversees the organization’s IT team and Trust-wide strategic digital initiatives.

    Stringer has led computer, technology, and learning services in libraries and universities for over 35 years. Before joining Getty, she was the associate vice chancellor for IT and chief information officer at UC Berkeley, and previously served as the campus’s deputy chief information officer, assistant vice chancellor for IT, and chief academic technology officer. Stringer was previously the director for academic technology services at New York University and director of educational technology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

    Stringer graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with honors in History and completed her Masters in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University. Stringer is a Frye Leadership Institute Fellow and is a past member of the EDUCAUSE Institute of Management Faculty. She currently represents EDUCAUSE on the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Steering Committee, and is a former Viewpoints Editor for Educause Review.

  8. Kimberly Uyttewaal

    Interim Vice President, Development

  9. James M. Williams

    Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, and Treasurer

    James Williams has been the vice president and chief investment officer of the Trust since December 2002 and was appointed treasurer in May 2006. Before joining Getty, Williams spent three years as the president of Harbor Capital Advisors and president of the Harbor Fund’s family of mutual funds.

    Prior to that, he was manager of the pension asset management department of Ford Motor Company. Williams holds a B.S. in engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Chicago.

  10. Desiree Zenowich

    Interim Vice President, Communications

Program Directors

  1. Joan Weinstein

    Director, The Getty Foundation

    Joan Weinstein is director of the Getty Foundation. Since joining Getty, she has directed grant initiatives internationally related to art history, conservation, and museum practice, and is the co-creator of Pacific Standard Time, a Getty-funded initiative of thematically linked exhibitions and programs presented by cultural institutions across Southern California.

    Throughout her career she has been active in professional organizations in the fields of art history, philanthropy, and preservation, and has served on a number of nonprofit boards. Weinstein began her career teaching art history at the University of Pittsburgh and is the author of several books and numerous articles on the history of modern art in Weimar Germany. She holds a PhD in the history of art from the University of California, Los Angeles, and studied at the Phillips-Universität Marburg in Germany.

  2. Mary Miller

    Director, The Getty Research Institute

    Mary Miller is director of the Getty Research Institute. A longtime member of the Yale University faculty, she served as Dean of Yale College from 2008–2014 and held many University leadership roles. For both her curatorial and scholarly work on ancient Mexico and the Maya, Dr. Miller has won national recognition including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Getty Grant. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994.

    Named a Sterling Professor at Yale in 2008, she delivered the Fifty-ninth A. W. Mellon lectures at the National Gallery of Art in 2010 and the Slade Lectures at Cambridge University in 2015. Dr. Miller was invited by UCLA to deliver the 2018–19 Gretchen Taylor Millson Distinguished Lecture, an endowed annual lecture honoring women scholars and feminist concerns. Dr. Miller earned her A.B. from Princeton and her Ph.D. from Yale.

  3. Timothy Potts

    Maria Hummer-Tuttle and Robert Tuttle Director, The J. Paul Getty Museum

    Timothy Potts joined Getty as director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in September 2012. His previous position was director and Marlay Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, from 2008 to 2012, where he was also professorial fellow and director of studies in the history of art at Clare College. Previous to that, he was director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas from 1998 to 2007, director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, from 1994 to 1998, and a research lecturer and research fellow in ancient art and archaeology at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1984 to 1990. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

    Born in Sydney, Australia, he holds a B.A. with double first class honors and university medals in archaeology/ancient art and philosophy from the University of Sydney, and a D.Phil. (PhD) in ancient Near Eastern art and archaeology from the University of Oxford. Dr. Potts is the author of numerous publications on ancient art, culture, and history; museum studies; and art history.

  4. Timothy P. Whalen

    John E. and Louise Bryson Director, The Getty Conservation Institute

    Timothy Whalen is John E. and Louise Bryson Director of the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI). His professional association with Getty dates to 1983, when he was appointed assistant director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, and then associate director of the Getty Building Program. In 1991 he assumed the position of senior program officer in the Getty Foundation, and in December 1998 he was named the GCI’s director.

    Whalen is an advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a member of the board of studies for the Courtauld Institute of Art’s M.A. program in the conservation of wall paintings, and a member of the United States National Commission to UNESCO. A California native, he holds a B.A. in art history as well as an M.A. in museum studies and art history from the University of Southern California.

Past Presidents

Harold Williams
Founding President and CEO, 1981–1998 (deceased)

Barry Munitz
President and CEO, 1998–2006

Deborah Marrow
Interim President and CEO, 2006–2007; 2010–2011 (deceased)

James Wood
President and CEO, 2007–2010 (deceased)

James Cuno
President and CEO, 2011–2022