David Gordon (television executive)


David Gordon is a British businessman, former chief executive of Independent Television News and the Economist Group, before succeeding Sir Piers Rodgers, 3rd Baronet as secretary of the Royal Academy in 1996.
Gordon studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Oxford.
Gordon is a former chairman of the Contemporary Art Society and a trustee of the Tate Gallery.
In 2002, he became director and CEO of the Milwaukee Art Museum, a post from which he retired in 2008.