Our People

Duncan Wilson OBE became Chief Executive of Alexandra Park and Palace (APP) in October 2011. His role is to develop APP as an iconic heritage site, a major cultural destination and a resource for the local community, Londoners and visitors from further afield.  In particular, he is leading the transformation of the Palace enabling it to realise more fully its potential as a public asset, and restore it to its former glory.

Prior to joining Alexandra Park and Palace, Duncan was Chief Executive of the Greenwich Foundation, the charity responsible for running the estate of the Old Royal Naval College, for ten years. During this time visitor numbers grew from around 200,000 to in excess of a million visitors each year including those to its new state-of-the-art interpretation and education centre for the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, “Discover Greenwich”. As well as being responsible for the maintenance of one of Europe’s finest and most extensive groups of Baroque buildings, the Foundation manages a programme of major open air public events, Chapel concerts and Painted Hall dinners.

Duncan moved to Greenwich in 2002 from the Somerset House Trust, where he led the project to restore the public spaces and open the site to the public from 1997. Successes included the Courtyard, fountains and ice rink, the Admiralty restaurant and the Terrace café and sculpture exhibitions. Before that he was at the Department of Culture Media and Sport and Her Majesty’s Treasury.

He is a chartered accountant and his first post-qualification job was as Financial Controller of English Heritage. However, before accountancy he worked as a professional archaeologist, and has a post-graduate degree in European Archaeology from Oxford University.

He was awarded the OBE for services to heritage in 2007.

Charlotte joined Alexandra Palace in April 2010, coming from an in-house and agency integrated marketing background. Charlotte has over 8 years experience working with large commercial clients such as Vodafone on the Music Unlimited Festival, while at the award winning agency Cake, to rebranding and setting up a non-for profit charity which transferred from a Local Authority.

Charlotte’s role as Marketing Manager covers all brand, profile, marketing, PR and online disciplines as well as looking after customer service for the Palace. Charlotte is driven by restoring the Palace back to its original glory within a modern commercial world and ensuring that the People’s Palace takes centre stage on the London venue map.