David Patrick Martin Ekserdjian (born 28 October 1955) is Emeritus Professor of Art and Film History at the University of Leicester.
[2] He is the son of London School of Economics (B. Comm) graduate Colonel Nubar Martin 'Bill' Ekserdjian (1913-1967), a Northhampshireman whose family were Armenian nobility - Amira - a class of influential wealthy Armenians in the Ottoman Empire between the 18th and 19th centuries.
[3] Col. Ekserdjian was an executive director of Iraq Petroleum Company founded by Calouste Gulbenkian, an avid art collector; both Gulbenkian and his son, Nubar, shared an interest in art with Col.
[4][5][6][7] David's brother is barrister Angus George Martin Ekserdjian (1948-1989), a Westminster School alumni.
His publications include introduction and notes for Vasari's Lives of the Artists (1996) and Correggio (1997).