Charles Saumarez Smith is leaving the National Gallery after five years as its Director. He has been appointed to the newly created post of Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts.
The Lichfield Festival has announced that Vicki Stanley is its new Development Manager. She joins from The Lowry, where she was Development Manager, and previously worked as Membership Manager with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Sir John Tusa, who retires as Managing Director of the Barbican Centre in August, is to be the new Chairman of the University of the Arts London. He will succeed Will Wyatt, who retires after eight years as Chairman.
Cultivate, the audience development agency for East Midlands, has appointed Tiina Taatila as a part-time Project Manager. She will continue to work with Wirksworth Arts Festival and on freelance projects.
After five years directing Essex on Tour, Belinda Farrell (pictured) has been appointed as International Cultural Festival Manager with Essex County Council to develop and deliver the cultural element of the 2008/09 Jiangsu-Essex Festival.
Arts Council England has announced the appointment of Vivienne Bennett, currently Project Director of Transforming Tate Modern, as Director, Visual Arts Strategy, and Janet Archer, currently Artistic Director at Dance City, as Director, Dance Strategy.
Professor Eric Moody, Michael Quine and John Last have retired from The City University, Londons Department of Culture, Policy and Management. New professorial and professional associates are Robert Hewison, John Holden, Ruth MacKenzie, Kate Oakley, David Powell and Ziauddin Sardar.
Arts marketing and development agency, Audiences Wales, has appointed Nick Beasley as Chief Executive, taking over from Joanna Davies. He was recently Director of External Relations at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and Head of Marketing at the National Museums & Galleries of Wales.
Sarah Horner has joined the BBC National Orchestra of Wales as Assistant Marketing Manager. Her last post was as Outreach Co-Ordinator at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.
Sue Davies is leaving Sponsorship Consulting Ltd to join the Crafts Council as Director of External Relations.
Innovative Craft, the new Scottish project and exhibitions agency for contemporary objects, has appointed glass artist Elizabeth Swinburne as its first full-time Director. She was the Artistic Director of North Lands Creative Glass and former Course Leader at Royal College of Art and Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.
Andrew Burke will be the new Chief Executive of the London Sinfonietta following the departure of Cathy Graham and Gillian Moore. He is currently Head of LSO Discovery, the London Symphony Orchestra's community and education programme.
Buxton Festival has announced the appointment of Dame Janet Smith DBE (pictured) as Chairman. She replaces Roy Hattersley who steps down after eight years.
Calderdale MBC has appointed Jenny Smith as Strategic Arts Development Officer (Young People at Risk of Offending), to assist the Calderdale Youth Offending Team in integrating the arts into its practice and to collect evidence into the effects the arts can have on young people.
Neil Meldrum is the new Director of Grampian Youth Orchestra. He has been Principal Teacher of Music at Ruthrieston Secondary School and at Harlaw Academy in Aberdeen, and is a Visiting Examiner with the Scottish Qualifications Authority.
Paul Bogen, previously Director of the Junction in Cambridge, has been appointed as Managing Director of Opportunity Links, a voluntary sector organisation working to deliver the Childrens Trust agenda.
Pauline Tambling will succeed Dick Hill as Chair of Shape, the UK arts development charity working with disabled and deaf people. Currently working as a freelance arts consultant, she worked at Arts Council England in senior roles from 1998 to 2007 and prior to that was Head of Education at the Royal Opera House.
The new Administrator for The Garage Theatre, Monaghan, is Martina Hurson.
Shami Chakrabarti, Director of the human rights organisation Liberty, is to become a patron of Big Brum Theatre in Education Company.
Jon Morgan (pictured) has been appointed Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, succeeding Paul Gudgin who is stepping down in June. He is currently Executive Producer at Contact in Manchester and was previously General Manager at TAG Theatre Company.