Met Museum Director Search Update

Executive search firm Phillips Oppenheim is assisting The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Trustees' Search Commitee to find a successor to Director Philippe de Montebello.

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on February 4, 2008 that New York-based executive search firm Phillips Oppenheim has been retained to assist the Trustees' Search Committee in its mission to find a successor to Philippe de Montebello, the museum's soon-to-retire Director and Chief Executive Officer. Phillips Oppenheim specializes in not-for-profit museum executive job placement. Principals Laurie Nash and Sarah James will coordinate the important worldwide search efforts.