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Sir John Tusa Sir John Tusa became Chair of the Clore Leadership Programme in 2009, following twelve years as the Managing Director of the Barbican Centre. Having begun his career at the BBC, John was a main presenter of "Newsnight", and from 1986 to 1992 was Managing Director of BBC World Service, during which the foundations of BBC World Service Television were laid. John is a Trustee of The Turquoise Mountain Trust Foundation and recently completed six years as Chairman of the Court of Governors for the University of the Arts, London. He is a regular broadcaster, and has written books on broadcasting, arts policy, arts management and the nature of creativity. Sue Hoyle OBE Sue Hoyle OBE was appointed as the Director of the Clore Leadership Programme in August 2008, having been Deputy Director since the Programme's creation in 2003. She has extensive experience of senior positions in the arts: prior to joining the Clore Leadership Programme, she was Executive Director of The Place, London's international centre for contemporary dance. Other previous posts include Head of Arts for the British Council in Paris and Deputy Secretary General of Arts Council England. Having directed and served on the boards of numerous arts and cultural organisations, she is currently a Trustee of the British Council and a patron of the Foundation for Community Dance. As a consultant and facilitator, she has worked with a range of UK and overseas institutions, including the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Goethe Institute and ELIA. In 2010, the French Government made her a Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques for her work in promoting French culture. In 2011 she was awarded an OBE for her services to contemporary dance. Daniel K L Chua Before joining Hong Kong University as the Head of the School of Humanities, Daniel K. L. Chua, was a fellow and the Director of Studies at St John's College, Cambridge, and later Professor of Music Theory and Analysis at King's College London. He was a Henry Fellow at Harvard and is the recipient of the 2004 Royal Musical Association's Dent Medal. He has written widely on music, from Monteverdi to Stravinsky; his publications include The 'Galitzin' Quartets of Beethoven (Princeton, 1994) and Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (Cambridge, 1999). Maria Balshaw Maria Balshaw is a Director of the Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester and the Manchester City Galleries. As Director of these two major institutions, holding internationally important collections of fine and decorative art of more than 80,000 objects, she is responsible for the artistic and strategic vision for each gallery. In August 2013 she also took on Strategic Lead for Culture for Manchester City Council. An academic by training, she has worked as an administrator and Director within the cultural sector for the past 10 years. Farooq Chaudhry Farooq Chaudhry, co-founder and producer of Akram Khan Dance Company, plays a key role in forming innovative business models to support Akram Khan's artistic ambitions as well as offering creative support during the development of Khan's projects. He is a 'project champion' for Arts Council England's Cultural Leadership programme, Chair of Dance UK's Board and a member of the Strategic Advisory Committee for Clore Leadership Programme. Chaudhry also became the Producer for English National Ballet in October 2013. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs acknowledged him in a list of the world's top hundred cultural actors and entrepreneurs in 2008. Ada Wong, JP Ada is a staunch advocate for culture and creative education. She was an elected member of the former Urban Council and the Wan Chai District Council. She is a solicitor, educator and radio talk show co-host. Among other institutions, she founded the non-profit Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture (HKICC), and the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, a school dedicated to nurturing artistic talents for cultural development. Jane Wentworth Jane Wentworth is Director and Founder of Jane Wentworth Associates, a leading international consultancy for brand in the cultural sector. Since 2003, Jane Wentworth Associates has developed brand strategies and identity programmes for a diverse range of clients including the V&A, Guggenheim, Glyndebourne Opera and National Theatre of Scotland. John Holden John Holden is a Visiting Professor at City University, London and an Associate at the think-tank Demos. He is a writer, speaker and commentator on many aspects of culture, and his publications include Influence and Attraction, Cultural Value and the Crisis of Legitimacy, and the co-authored Cultural Leadership Handbook. John is a Trustee of the Hepworth, Wakefield, and he is a member of the Education Boards of the Royal Opera House and the Design Museum, and of the European Expert Network on Culture. Rick Tang A lawyer by training (HK barrister and U.S. Attorney-at-law, California Bar). His corporate experience includes being a member of the Management Board of Hongkong Telecom, the Chief International Counsel of British Telecom, and Senior Vice-President of GE Capital, Asia Region. He serves as a trustee for Fu Tak Iam Foundation and chairman of its Grants Allocation Committee. Representing the foundation, he was a founding member of the Hong Kong Foundations Exchange (HKFx). John Newbigin John Newbigin is Chairman of Creative England; of the cultural web publisher Culture24; and of Cinema Arts Network. As Special Advisor to the Minister for Culture he was closely involved in developing the UK government's first policies for the creative industries. He was Head of Corporate Relations for Channel 4 Television and a policy advisor to the Leader of the UK Labour Party, Rt Hon Neil Kinnock, MP, where he had responsibility for environmental and cultural issues, amongst others. Fearghus Ó Conchúir Fearghus Ó Conchúir is a choreographer and dance artist whose film and live performances invite audiences and artists to build communities together. He is Dance Curator at Firkin Crane and currently Trustee of the BBC Performing Arts Fund and of Dance Digital. He is a former board member of Dance Ireland, Project Arts Centre and of Create. Fearghus was the first Ireland Fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme and continues to contribute to the programme as a facilitator, coach and speaker. www.fearghus.net Dick Robertson Ideas Unlimited is an international consultancy that develops imaginative approaches to leadership and organisation development. For the last 7 years, in addition to his extensive corporate work, Dick has been much more involved in the cultural sector - with Tipping Point, a charitable trust that brings artists and scientists together on climate change, the Clore Leadership Programme and assignments with several other cultural organisations. Mirana May Szeto Mirana May Szeto did her Ph.D. in the Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA. She is working on a book entitled The Radical Itch: Cultural Politics and Its Discontents. Her current research is on Hong Kong cultural policy and politics, also a book project entitled Decolonizing Neoliberalism: Postcolonial Urban Cultural Politics. She is the P-I of the RGC GRF project entitled "Contested Cultural Imaginations in Government Practices & Community Responses: Urban Renewal Processes in Wanchai, Hong Kong." She is also part of the team research projects on "Making Cultural Clusters: New Strategies for Culture-led Urban Redevelopment" (RGC, CPU PPR) and "The Restructuring of the Movie Industry in Hong Kong: flexible specialization, Innovation and the labor Market" (RGC, GRF). She also writes on postcolonial and feminist theory, literature and film, as well as cultural studies on Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. Stanley Yen (嚴長壽) Group President of Landis Hotels and Resorts and a legendary figure in the tourism industry. Yen is also a champion in promoting economic development hand in hand with cultural and environmental conservation. In 2010 he established Alliance Cultural Foundation aimed at community initiative and cultural revitalization of aboriginal areas along the east coasts of Taiwan. Hsu Lu Hsu Lu graduated from the English department at Tamkang University in Taipei, and spent nine months in New York City in 1990 as a visiting scholar at Columbia University. In 1980, Hsu founded 'The Mother Earth' Magazine, covering social, environmental, labor and women's issues. She served as the founding publisher and editor in chief. Hsu then moved to 'The Eighties', a literary magazine known for its opposition to Taiwan's then authoritarian KMT leadership, where she worked as managing editor. In 1986, a year before the end of martial law, Hsu and four fellow journalists founded Taiwan's first professional editorial magazine - 'The Journalists weekly' and served as its first CEO. In 1987, Hsu joined The Independent Evening News, a non-partisan daily newspaper recognized for its support for freedom of speech and its push for political reforms. In 1993, Hsu and fellow cultural and media professionals founded the Voice of Taipei, Taiwan's first non-governmental FM radio station. In 2000, she became the vice president and the President in 2002 of Chinese Television System, a terrestrial TV channel. Hsu exited media profession in 2006 and has since worked in the culture and non-profit sector.
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