Career
Since 2011, he has been Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Roth became Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in September 2011. Before joining the V&A, Roth was Director General of the Dresden State Art Collections, overseeing 12 museums and galleries.
During this time he created an extensive network of international partners, which led to numerous exhibitions overseas.
From 1991 to 2000 he was Director of the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden, the first German science museum, and prior to that he was Curator at the Deutsches Historisches Museum (1989-2001). After completing his Doctor of Philosophy on the history of museums and cultural politics in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich at the Eberhard Karls University in Tuebingen in 1987, Roth became a researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, East.H.E.S.S. in Paris.
Following this, in 1992, he became a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Los Los Angeles Roth has lectured at the University of Dresden, the School of Design in Karlsruhe, and the University of Karlsruhe.