HELEN MOLESWORTH

Helen has a broad twenty year commercial and academic career in the gem and jewellery industry. During ten years as a jewellery specialist for Sotheby’s and Christie’s in London and Geneva, Helen has handled, researched and valued many world-class gems and jewels, and important collections, including the private collection of HRH Princess Margaret.

In 2011, she became a Lecturer in the History of Jewellery in Geneva, then joined Gübelin as Managing Director to create, launch and run a coloured gemstone Academy, creating and building the business which she operated out of Switzerland, Hong Kong and successfully took into China. Helen is now the Senior Jewellery Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, looking after one of the most extensive and fabulous public jewellery collections in the world.

Helen has travelled extensively to gem shows and mine sites internationally. She has a degree in Classics from Christ Church, Oxford, is a Fellow of the Gemmological Associations of Great Britain and Hong Kong, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in London, and has published and lectured widely on gems ancient through to modern. Her first book for general readership, Precious, was published in May 2024.

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