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UK Council

Our UK Council plays a vital role in determining and shaping our impact priorities, steering policy positions and sharing crucial insights from across industry and the UK.

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Our UK Council plays a vital role in determining and shaping our impact priorities, steering policy positions and sharing crucial insights from across industry and the UK. It champions the priorities of its membership in our mission to ensure the best possible conditions for the growth and success of the creative industries.

Our UK Council members cover each UK nation and region, a full spectrum of creative sub-sectors, businesses big and small, freelancers, practitioners and education providers. They listen and feed into to the concerns, opportunities and ideas of their creative communities, and share these priorities on behalf of their respective UK nations and regions.

 

Meet Our UK Council

Bernard P AchampongDirector - Development, Unedited and CEO, Ideas Genius Ltd.
Nicholas AllottProducer / Cultural Fellow, Cameron Mackintosh
Fiona Armstrong-GibbsChair & Director, Baltic Creative CIC, Baltic Triangle Area CIC
Paul Appleby MBEAdvisor, Bristol Creative Industries & Director, VID Communications
Syima AslamCEO, Bradford Literature Festival
Yasin El Ashrafi BEMCEO, HQ Recording
Deirdre RobbCEO, Belfast Exposed
Helen Brunsdon Director, British Animation Awards
Lisa BurdgeCo-Founder: Olympic Studios, The Cinema at Selfridges, The Cinema in the Arches/the Power Station, Empire Design Ltd.
Claire Malcolm MBECEO, New Writing North
Rachel BayntonAssociate Professor, University of Lincoln School of Creative Arts & Co-artistic Director, Proto-type
Dan TsuCEO/Creative Director, Lyrix Organix
Sarah DearManaging Director, Born Ugly
Marcus DaveyChief Executive and Artistic Director, Roundhouse
Matias ShortcookCentre Principal for Chelsea Centre for Creative Industries & Vice Principal for Innovation, Morley College London
Kate VarahExecutive Director, National Theatre
Deborah DawtonCEO, Design Business Association
Christopher OnderstallSenior Partner, Head of People and Business Transformation, FleishmanHillard
Jim FarmeryDirector of Development, Backstage Academy in Wakefield managing XPLOR
Alison GradeCEO Mission Accomplished and author The Freelance Bible.
Gus Casely-HayfordDirector, V&A East
Sandra BoothDirector of Policy and External Relations, Council for Higher Education in Art and Design (CHEAD)
Natalie HumphreysMD, Storyboard Studios
Kene IgweonuAcademic Dean, Middlesex University
Caroline ParkinsonDirector of Creative, Edinburgh Futures Institute
Graham WebbManaging Director, 4Wood TV & Film
Kanya KingFounder, MOBO
Claire Whitaker CBECEO, Southampton Forward
Shona McCarthyCEO, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society
Patrick McCraeCEO, Artiq
James MorganFounder, Event Tech Lab
Andrew OgunAgent for Change, Arts Council Wales
Zaylie-Dawn WilsonHead of Creative Partnerships, Birmingham Hippodrome
Martin PrendergastDirector of Development and Public Affairs, RADA
Lara RatnarajaDirector, Cultural Consultant
Renay RichardsonFounder, Broccoli Content
James RiderChief Commercial Officer, Pinewood
Berwyn RowlandsIris Prize
Caroline Rush CBECEO, British Fashion Council (BFC)
Sophie ScottFilm & TV Communications Consultant
Paul Fieldsend-DanksVice-Chancellor, Arts University Plymouth
Russ Shaw CBEFounder, Tech London Advocates & Global Tech Advocates
Giselle StewartDirector, UK Corporate Affairs, Ubisoft
Ammo TalwarCEO, Punch Records
Graeme ThompsonPro Vice Chancellor, University of Sunderland
Mafalda DâmasoResearcher & Independent Consultant
Dr Jo Twist OBECEO, BPI
Jo VerrentSenior Producer, Unlimited
Annie WarburtonCEO, Cockpit Arts
Noshua Watson Founder, Interwoven Impact CIC
Charlotte NicolAssociate Dean EKE, Teesside University
Lucy KennedyChief Executive, Saturday Club Trust
Elaine BedellCEO, Southbank Centre
Jon WilliamsFounder & CEO, The Liberty Guild
Tamzyn SmithCEO, Cornwall Museums Partnership

Tamzyn is the CEO of CMP overseeing the collective efforts of CMP’s team ensuring its mission of creating positive social change with museums. She is passionate about working in collaboration and advocating for the brilliant work that happens in museums and heritage settings across the whole of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, in particular the experience of working across a rural region.

Tamzyn has over 20 years of proven leadership with the creative, heritage, social enterprise, local authority and third sectors, locally, regionally, and nationally. As an empathetic, collaborative leader with widespread experience in the creation and delivery of values and purpose led organisations and strategies, she has worked in both executive and non-executive roles, leading, coaching and delivering effective policy creation, strategy design, partnership and innovation amongst teams and organisations of different sizes and scales.

In her previous role as Principal Lead for Culture and Creative Economy at Cornwall Council, she led the co-creation of Cornwall’s Creative Manifesto and led on the commissioning of the G7 UK 2021 Cultural Programme.

Tamzyn has a MA in Curating Contemporary Design from the Design Museum and Kingston University. She is a member of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Creative Industries Sector Body and an Advisory Council Member for Tate St Ives.

Frances Corner OBEWarden, Goldsmiths, University of London

Professor Frances Corner OBE is Warden of Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the academic and administrative leader of the university and the first woman to take on the role since Goldsmiths was founded.    

Previously Head of London College of Fashion and Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts London, Professor Corner has over 20 years’ experience in higher education leadership.    

She is board member for the University of London and London Higher, Chair of the AccessHE Steering Group, and Council member for the All-Party Parliamentary University Group. A passionate sustainability advocate, Frances is Executive Chair of the London Higher Sustainability Network and a member of the Universities UK Task and Finish Group exploring how UK universities can address climate change.

Frances is Chair of Trustees at Maudsley Charity. She was previously Chair of the International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes and Chair of Trustees for the House of Illustration. She was also a board member for Advance HE, the Wallace Collection and Centrepoint, the youth homelessness charity.

In 2009, Frances was awarded an OBE for services to fashion higher education and widening participation in arts education.

Robert DouglasCo-Founder & Executive Producer, Hatch Films

Tamzyn is the CEO of CMP overseeing the collective efforts of CMP’s team ensuring its mission of creating positive social change with museums. She is passionate about working in collaboration and advocating for the brilliant work that happens in museums and heritage settings across the whole of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, in particular the experience of working across a rural region.

Tamzyn has over 20 years of proven leadership with the creative, heritage, social enterprise, local authority and third sectors, locally, regionally, and nationally. As an empathetic, collaborative leader with widespread experience in the creation and delivery of values and purpose led organisations and strategies, she has worked in both executive and non-executive roles, leading, coaching and delivering effective policy creation, strategy design, partnership and innovation amongst teams and organisations of different sizes and scales.

In her previous role as Principal Lead for Culture and Creative Economy at Cornwall Council, she led the co-creation of Cornwall’s Creative Manifesto and led on the commissioning of the G7 UK 2021 Cultural Programme.

Tamzyn has a MA in Curating Contemporary Design from the Design Museum and Kingston University. She is a member of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Creative Industries Sector Body and an Advisory Council Member for Tate St Ives.

Professor Frances Corner OBE is Warden of Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the academic and administrative leader of the university and the first woman to take on the role since Goldsmiths was founded.    

Previously Head of London College of Fashion and Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts London, Professor Corner has over 20 years’ experience in higher education leadership.    

She is board member for the University of London and London Higher, Chair of the AccessHE Steering Group, and Council member for the All-Party Parliamentary University Group. A passionate sustainability advocate, Frances is Executive Chair of the London Higher Sustainability Network and a member of the Universities UK Task and Finish Group exploring how UK universities can address climate change.

Frances is Chair of Trustees at Maudsley Charity. She was previously Chair of the International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes and Chair of Trustees for the House of Illustration. She was also a board member for Advance HE, the Wallace Collection and Centrepoint, the youth homelessness charity.

In 2009, Frances was awarded an OBE for services to fashion higher education and widening participation in arts education.

Dan WoodChief Strategy Officer & Acting Co-CEO, UKIE
Tom WrathmellDirector, Across the UK Initiative, BBC