Karen Exell

Dr. Exell is Honorary Senior Research Associate at UCL Qatar and Museums Development Senior Director at Diriyah Gate Development Authority. From 2015-2019 she was Senior Museum Development Specialist at the National Museum of Qatar, Qatar Museums, where she led the delivery of this new museum project to its opening in March 2019. Prior to joining Qatar Museums, she directed the MA in Museum and Gallery Practice at UCL Qatar from 2011-2015, after teaching museums studies and holding curatorial and gallery development positions in university museums in the UK for several years. Recent publications include the monographs, Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula (Routledge, 2016), and The Global Spectacular: New Museum Architecture in China and the Arabian Peninsula (Lund Humphries, April 2018).