Michael Wellen has been appointed the curator of international art at Tate. He was previously the assistant curator of Latin American and Latino art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas.

The Museum of East Anglian Life has appointed Jenny Cousins as its director. Her previous role was at Duxford for Imperial War Museums, where she led the redevelopment of the American Air Museum.

Pat Coleman has been appointed as the chair of Derby Museums Trust, which runs the Museum and Art Gallery, Pickford’s House, and the Silk Mill. Previously she was vice-chair of the trust, and takes over from Peter Smith, who has stepped down.

Rowan Brown has left her role as the director of the Alfred Gillett Trust to take up the post of chief executive of Woodhorn Charitable Trust and Northumberland Museum and Archives.

Emma Shepley has left her role as senior curator at the Royal College of Physicians museum to go freelance as a museum consultant, writer and exhibition curator.

Sonia Solicari will become the director of the Geffrye Museum in London in January 2017. She is currently the head of the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London.

Esther Roberts has become the secretary of the Welsh Museums Federation. She is the project manager at the Gwynedd Museum & Art Gallery in Bangor.

Mark Urban, the diplomatic and defence editor for BBC Newsnight, has been appointed trustee to the board of the Royal Armouries for a second term, until 2020.

Michael Ashcroft has been reappointed to the board of the Imperial War Museum, until 4 November 2020.