Penelope P. Watkins

Penelope P. Watkins has served on the Curtis board of trustees since 2002. Mrs. Watkins grew up in the U.K. and attended University of Lausanne in Switzerland and taught English before working for the British Foreign Office in London and the Netherlands, and then for the United Nations in the office of GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade). In 1965, Ms. Watkins relocated to Pennsylvania where she became involved in various cultural, art and charitable interests. In addition to her service to Curtis, she is a member of the president’s council at the Natural Lands Trust, a member of the Maestro’s Circle of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and is on the Chairman’s Council of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.