大都会艺术博物馆之使命历史

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Inka Drögemüller
Deputy Director for Digital, Education, Publications,
Imaging, and Libraries

Appointed in February 2019, Inka Drögemüller is the Museum’s Deputy Director for Digital, Education, Publications, Imaging, and Libraries. Prior to joining The Met, she was Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Germany’s Städel Museum and Liebieghaus Sculptural Collection and Deputy Director of Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Chief among her accomplishments during 18 years at these institutions were innovative digital and educational projects that expanded the museums’ outreach, introducing diverse audiences to collections, programming, and other initiatives.

Following her master’s degree in marketing communication at Berlin Universität der Künste, Drögemüller worked as project developer and art consultant in Berlin and New York. In 2001, at the Schirn Kunsthalle, she established new departments for marketing, communications, and sponsorship. In her capacity to develop major strategic partnerships with global companies and research institutes, she found new collaborators and supporters for the three Frankfurt institutions in the realms of science, technology, and the corporate world, and worked closely with in﹉ouse curators, digital departments, and pedagogical staff to create a new, interdisciplinary culture as a prerequisite to implementing the museums’ advanced digital strategy. She is a speaker at numerous international symposiums and conferences on digitization.

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Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli
Head of Construction

As the Museum’s Head of Construction, Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli oversees the Construction Department which leads the planning, design and construction of the institution’s capital projects. He is also an integral member of the leadership team dedicated to the Museum’s facilities and operations.

Prior to joining The Met in November 2020, Hernandez-Eli led critical projects for the city as Senior Vice President, Head of Design and Construction, at the New York City Economic Development Corporation. His portfolio, dedicated to enabling social and economic equity, spanned developments such as the Made in New York garment hub and film studios; Brooklyn Army Terminal; MART125 community center; public food markets; and the City’s entire waterfront infrastructure. Prior to his public service, Hernandez-Eli was an associate principal at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, where he provided critical operational oversight for projects for cultural institutions, including MoMA; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; and the High Line. He received a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Quincy Houghton
Deputy Director for Exhibitions

Quincy Houghton, Deputy Director for Exhibitions, leads The Met's program of groundbreaking loan exhibitions, oversees installations of its encyclopedic collection, and supervises key international initiatives.

Prior to joining The Met in the summer of 2016, Houghton served as Associate Director for Exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, where she was responsible for managing the Getty's program of temporary exhibitions and installations, both at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa. She also coordinated all aspects of the museum's move from the Getty Villa to the Getty Center, including the installation of the collections. Prior to joining the Getty, Houghton worked at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and at Lazard Brothers & Co., Limited, the London investment bank, where as Senior Associate she led a mergers and acquisitions team. Houghton holds a BA magna cum laude in fine arts from Harvard University.

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Clyde B. Jones III
Senior Vice President for Institutional Advancement

In his role as The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Senior Vice President for Institutional Advancement, Clyde Jones leads the Museum's efforts to deepen and broaden its engagement with current and prospective donors locally, nationally, and internationally. He is responsible for Individual, Foundation/Government, and Planned Giving as well as The Capital Campaign, Corporate Engagement, and the 150th Anniversary Committee. He joined The Met in July 2015.

Prior to his work at the Museum, Jones was President of the Medical and Health Sciences Foundation, which raises money for the University of Pittsburgh and its clinical partner, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He previously served as Director of Development for New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College and held leadership positions at Lenox Hill Hospital and the New York Civil Liberties Union, among other not-for-profit organizations. He is on the boards of the Pittsburgh Opera, Washington and Jefferson College, and WQED Multimedia. Jones has a BA in theater studies from Pennsylvania State University.

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Jamie Kelleher
Senior Vice President, Finance and Operations, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer

As Senior Vice President, Finance and Operations, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer, Jamie Kelleher oversees The Met's fiscal strategy and financial operations. She provides oversight to the Office of the Controller, Office of Budget and Planning, Treasury, Financial Operations, Internal Audit, Procurement, Information Systems and Technology, Office Services, and Human Resources. She joined the Museum in 2014 as Controller and was named Chief Financial Officer in September 2016.

Prior to joining The Met, Kelleher led the finance and auction services at Phillips, an international contemporary art auction house, and consulted with a private equity firm on a broad range of financial restructuring initiatives within the food industry. She started her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the firm's technology audit practice and rose to manager in its capital markets, accounting, and valuation practice, advising complex organizations on a wide range of accounting, valuation, and due diligence topics. Kelleher is a graduate of Bucknell University and New York University's Stern School of Business. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

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Lavita McMath Turner
Chief Diversity Officer

Lavita McMath Turner, the institution’s first Chief Diversity Officer, joined The Met in January 2021. She collaborates closely with partners in a wide range of departments, particularly Human Resources, to oversee the execution of the Museum’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access plan and Commitments to Anti-Racism, Diversity, and a Stronger Community and to lead the creation of new initiatives that support The Met’s goals to become ever more inclusive, equitable, fair, and welcoming.

Previously, she served as Assistant Dean for Equity, Inclusion, and Experiential Learning at Stella & Charles Guttman Community College, City University of New York (CUNY), where she provided strategic leadership in shaping the college’s equity, diversity, and inclusion plans and worked to address the equity gaps for students with diverse backgrounds. She was the first Director of Government Relations at CUNY’s Kingsborough Community College, where she led important civic engagement efforts and advocated for providing more equitable access to higher education, and also worked at the Brooklyn Museum, managing their government relations department for six years and supporting the museum’s efforts to engage more deeply with the Brooklyn community. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban Education from The Graduate Center, CUNY; a Master of Science in Urban Policy Analysis and Management from the New School for Social Research; and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Welfare from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Lauren A. Meserve
Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer

As Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, Lauren Meserve oversees the management of the Museum's $3.4 billion investment portfolio, including asset allocation, investment manager selection, and risk management. She joined the Museum's investment team in 2002 and was named Chief Investment Officer in 2014.

Previously, Meserve worked at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where she assisted in the management of the foundation's endowment, collaborated on two books about higher education (The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions and The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values), and coordinated projects for Artstor. She began her career as an analyst at the Yale Investments Office, Yale University.

Meserve has a master's degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Yale University. She serves on the board of several non-profits, including the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Population Council, and American Friends of the National Gallery, London.

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Kenneth Weine
Vice President of External Affairs and Chief Communications Officer

The Met's Vice President of External Affairs and Chief Communications Officer, Kenneth Weine, oversees media relations, marketing, government affairs, tourism, and employee communications. He joined the Museum in February 2017.

Previously, Weine was Vice President, Communications and Marketing, for The New York Public Library, where he helped build an award-winning campaign for increased library funding and was dedicated to showcasing the library’s education programs in neighborhood branches, its digital leadership, and renovations and capital improvements for the network’s 92 libraries. Trained as an attorney and, previously, a community organizer, he began his career at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, first as a staff attorney and then as the organization's first communications director. From 1999 to 2005, Weine led communications and marketing at Newsweek and then worked at Consumer Reports/Consumers Union, directing communications and branding. He is a board member of the Communications Network and has published op-eds on a range of democracy topics. He graduated from the University of Michigan and Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.

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Asian Art
The Department of Asian Art fulfills a unique role at The Met by representing the artistic achievements of six major cultural traditions that encompass 5,000 years of history, half the world's population, more than twenty modern nations, and a vast region that ranges from Afghanistan, the Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia across the Himalayas to China, Korea, and Japan.

The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.

As Asia becomes ever more important on the world’s stage, the need to understand its diverse cultures and rich history becomes increasingly important. We at The Met want to do our part to make Asia more accessible by celebrating the ways in which the past continues to inform and enrich the present. We invite you to share in that adventure by exploring this page.

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History of the Department
The Met has been collecting Asian art since the late nineteenth century. Many of its earliest benefactors—Benjamin Altman, the Havemeyers, the Rockefellers, and others—included objects from Asia in their large bequests to the Museum in the first half of the twentieth century, and in 1915, the Department of Far Eastern Art was established. The real impetus for creating a comprehensive collection of Asian art came from Douglas Dillon, who was elected president of the Museum's Board of Trustees in 1970. In 1986 the department's name was changed to the Department of Asian Art.