The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport appointed Oliver Enwonwu and Katie Wray to the National Museums Liverpool Board, according to a 15 October 2026 announcement. Both appointments run from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2030. The same announcement said Dinah Birch, John Belchem, Lynn Collins and Anna Farthing were reappointed, each for a term from 1 March 2027 to 28 February 2031.

The department described Enwonwu as a cultural leader, artist, curator and publisher, and Wray as a Deloitte real estate director who leads its national heritage team. Birch is an emeritus professor of English literature at the University of Liverpool, and Belchem an emeritus professor of history there. Collins is director of representation and organising at the Royal College of Midwives, and Anna Farthing a creative producer and cultural consultant.

The board's trustees are not remunerated, the announcement said, and the appointments followed the Governance Code on Public Appointments. It said none of the appointees had declared significant political activity in the last five years.