Michael Govan is the CEO and Wallis Annenberg director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). In that position since 2006, he is leading one of the most dramatic art museum transformations in the United States. Since 2008, LACMA has opened the Broad Contemporary Art Museum and the Resnick Pavilion, doubling exhibition space and visitor attendance. LACMA also commissioned iconic artworks, including "Urban Light" by Chris Burden and "Levitated Mass" by Michael Heizer. In 2013, LACMA revealed a new plan for its east campus as envisioned by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor. From 1994 to 2005, Govan was president and director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York, where he spearheaded the creation of Dia:Beacon. From 1988 to 1994 he served as deputy director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, leading new projects in New York, Venice and Bilbao, Spain. Prior to that, Govan helped found MASS MoCA while at Williams College, where he studied art history and fine art.