Maurice Davies is deputy director of the Museums Association, with particular responsibility for policy and ethics and the MA’s annual conference. Before that he was editor of Museums Journal. He’s also been a curator at Manchester City Art Galleries and a Turner Scholar at Tate. He is involved in a wide range of initiatives in the museum sector including the Mayor of London’s Heritage Diversity Task Force. His recent work has covered areas including: the sustainability and museums, illicit trade in cultural property, human remains in museums, aspects of the MA’s Collections for the Future report, entry to and diversity of the museum workforce and research into the impact of major lottery projects on museum visiting in London. He has a doctorate in art history from the Courtauld Institute, University of London and a first degree in pure mathematics from the University of Warwick.