Will Gompertz
William Edward Gompertz is the BBC's arts editor.
Gompertz attended Dulwich Preparatory School, in Cranbrook, Kent.
Gompertz was previously director of Tate Media, and appeared in a show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2009 called Double Art History. Gompertz has written extensively for The Guardian and The Times newspapers. He is the author of What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye.
He is the son of general practitioner Hugh Gompertz OBE and a second cousin of Simon Gompertz, the personal finance correspondent to BBC News. He was born in Kent, and attended Bedford School. He did not take any A-levels.
Gompertz married Kate Anderson in 1993 and they have three sons and one daughter.
