Pim Baxter is Communications and Development Director at the National Portrait Gallery. She joined the Gallery in 1997, in the exciting lead up to the opening of the Ondaatje Wing in 2000, having previously worked in both marketing and fundraising at the National Theatre for nine years, and in the later years working with sponsors who supported the theatre’s international touring – particularly Ian McKellen’s Richard III and Nigel Hawthorne’s The Madness of George III.

Pim’s first part-time, and then full-time, job after having a family was during the 1980s at Kent Opera, a popular touring opera company, she then spent two years as Head of Press and Marketing at the Orchard Theatre in Kent, one of Kent Opera’s touring venues. Whilst at the Orchard Theatre, and then subsequently at the National, she took an MA in Arts Administration at City University. Her first degree was with the Open University, when she was part of a pilot scheme to allow students under 21 years of age to take their degree with the OU. She studied whilst working as a language assistant at the University of Kent, and then when her children were young.

Pim has been on the Board of the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, a small but ambitious theatre dedicated solely to producing international work, for a number of years and has recently joined the Board of ALVA (the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions).

Pim is married with three children, two girls and a boy.