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Andrew Barnett has been Director of the UK Branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation since September 2007.

Andrew joined the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation where he held the post of Director of Policy Development and Communications. Prior to this, he was Director of Communications at the UK Sports Council and, before that, Head of Public Affairs at the National Consumer Council. Andrew previously held posts at HSBC Holdings, the Arts Council of England, and the Foyer Federation for Youth, as well as working for the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Homelessness and Housing Need. He is chair of the Novas Scarman Group of social enterprises and a trustee of Addaction, the UK's largest substance misuse charity, and has previously served voluntarily in a variety of capacities: as chair of the trustees of SPACE Studios, a London-based arts property charity; a director of Yorkshire Housing; and as a trustee of St Christopher's Fellowship, a housing association providing care and support to disadvantaged young people.

Born in New South Wales, Australia, Andrew was educated at King’s School, Bruton in Somerset, and St Andrews University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an enthusiast for contemporary abstract and Aboriginal art.