3rd June 2021
SCOTT MCDONALD is joining the British Council as its new Chief Executive in September. He is currently Chief Executive and President of global management consultancy Oliver Wyman Group and Vice-Chairman of Marsh McLennan, a leading professional services firm. He replaces Interim CEO KATE-EWART BIGGS, who will move into the role of Deputy Chief Executive.
Northern Ballet has announced that DAVID NIXON, its longest serving Artistic Director, will step down from the role in December after 20 years. During his time there the company has produced 29 full-length ballets; as a choreographer and designer, Nixon created 13 of them.
His contributions to the company include Wuthering Heights, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Great Gatsby and The Little Mermaid. He restaged and adapted a...
MELANIE LEWIS will be the first permanent Chief Executive of The Shakespeare North Playhouse, which opens to the public next year. She is currently an Executive Director with National Museums Liverpool. She has been with the museum group for nine years, seven of them as part of the leadership team.
Birmingham Royal Ballet has appointed of three new members to its board.
A radio and television presenter and news reporter from Birmingham, MARVERINE COLE is currently the Director of the BA (Hons) Journalism course at Birmingham City University.
SHIREENAH INGRAM is an actor, presenter and songwriter. She founded her own acting tuition company, Red Lens, earlier this year.
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After 18 years at East London Dance, POLLY RISBRIDGER will step down as Chief Executive and Artistic Director in October. She joined East London Dance in 2003 as Community Projects Coordinator, became a creative producer and later took over from the company's former Artistic Director KIKI GALE in 2013.
25th May 2021
The National Gallery has announced that LORD TONY HALL OF BIRKENHEAD, a Trustee of since November 2019 and Chair since July, has resigned with immediate effect.
The announcement follows the publication of an independent report revealing failings in the processes and procedures used to obtain a 1995 BBC interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, and a lack of transparency and inadequate effort to investigate what happened...
21st May 2021
The new Chair of the Barbican Centre Trust is FARMIDA BI. As Europe, Middle East and Asia Chair of global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, Bi is the UK’s first female Chair of a major law firm and has more than two decades' experience advising on capital markets and Islamic finance transactions. She has been named as one of Britain’s top five most powerful Muslim women.
ROBERT GLICK, Vice President and ...
VICTORIA POMERY will step down as Director of Turner Contemporary in the autumn to become CEO of The Box, Plymouth’s new £47m museum, gallery and archive. She has been with Turner for 19 years, including during the gallery’s first 10 years of operation. She oversaw the delivery of its iconic Margate seafront building – now featured on £20 notes.
The Box, whose...
English Touring Opera has appointed BEN DART as the new Head of Finance in a job share with National Youth Theatre, for whom he will take on the role of Finance and Operations Director.
Having previously worked in finance at Sadler's Wells, English National Opera, Riverside Studios and Assembly Festival, Dart joins the two companies in June from his role as Commercial Finance Manager at disability equality charity Scope....
KEITH MERRIN has become Director of Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, leaving Sunderland Culture, where he has been CEO since January 2017.
Merrin combined his role at Sunderland Culture with being Director of the National Glass Centre. From 2008 to 2016, he was CEO of Woodhorn Charitable Trust and before that led Bede’s World in South Tyneside.
In his new role he succeeds former Director IAIN WATSON...