Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, US, has named David Franklin - an internationally respected scholar of Italian Renaissance and baroque art - as the eighth director of the museum.

Franklin currently serves as deputy director and chief curator of the National Gallery of Canada, where he is responsible for the core work of the museum, including its curatorial departments, art acquisitions, conservation, library and archives, and education division. A native of Québec, Franklin earned his Bachelor of Arts in art history from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He received both his master's and doctorate degrees in European Renaissance art from the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London. He also was awarded an honorary Master of Arts by the University of Oxford.

Franklin's new role begins on 20 September. He succeeds interim director Deborah Gribbon, a former director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, who herself took over from Timothy Rub when he resigned in September 2009 to become director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.