Chair.

Caroline McCormick is Director of Achates. In 2005, having led the successful £70 million capital campaign to create the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, Caroline became the first Director of PEN International, heading up 145 Centres in 105 countries and was the Representative for Literature at UNESCO. Taking up the role four days a week, also allowed her to start working with her first consultancy client, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Wangari Maathai. In 2014, Caroline established Achates, which has rapidly grown to be a respected and trusted strategy, fundraising and recruitment consultancy through the quality of its work and ability to help organisations of all sizes to connect with audiences and develop resilience. In 2016, the first Achates Prize for Cultural Philanthropy was awarded and the Cultural Philanthropy Foundation, formerly known as the Achates Philanthropy Foundation, was launched to support innovation and the development of models enabling organisational resilience.

Caroline is also a Trustee of the National Centre for Writing and an advisor to We Don’t Settle.

Charlotte is Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager at The Barbican Centre, one of Europe's largest multi-arts and learning centres, attracting over one million visitors per year, She is responsible for

The creation, delivery, renewal and upgrade of successful and mutually beneficial partnerships with business to support the Barbican's multiarts and learning programme so everyone can enjoy affordable access to the arts and bring the benefits of arts and learning beyond traditional audiences to schools, families, young people, teachers and communities in the Cit's neighbouring East London boroughs.

She has previously held development roles at the Royal Academy of Engineering, the National Gallery, the London School of Economics and Chatham House. She started her career in the private sector working in venture capital and investment banking before joining management consultants Ernst & Young where she spent ten years before moving into the nonprofit sector.

Jasmina is a public policy professional, currently working at the UK Government's Department for Business and Trade as a Senior Policy Advisor. She is also a bookseller and Co-Director at Round Table Books, a Brixton based independent book shop and community interest company.

Jasmina holds a Bachelors in Government and a Master of Public Policy. She has previously held positions as Education Officer and Co-Director of LSE Students' Union, and as a Community Liaison Officer for the African Canadian Development and Prevention Network, a Quebec-based non-profit advocating for better health and social care outcomes for Montreal's English Speaking Black Community.

Josh Cockcroft is a producer and change maker for the creative and non-profit sector. After working for organisations such as the BBC and Entertainment One, he co-founded Well Tempered Productions, a production company focused on writers from marginalised backgrounds. His first feature as producer, NO FATHERS IN KASHMIR, was completed in 2019. He is now Director of Climate Spring, a non-profit development fund for scripted film and TV projects about climate change, and Head of Development for production company Le Bateau Lavoir.

Alongside producing, he has advised start ups on the strategic use of insight, and authored a number of research projects on the creative industries. Most recently he has been working for the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, building collaborations between organisations and the opportunities around data in the charitable sector. Josh is a Trustee of the Arvon Foundation and the Cultural Philanthropy Foundation.

Emily Lloyd is a fundraiser, performer and producer. With a background in Behavioural Science, she has worked across the nonprofit sector as a workshop facilitator, content creator, project manager, and fundraising. She is currently Director of Development & Communications at City of London Sinfonia, a chamber orchestra with an award-winning participation practice working with young people in psychiatric hospital school, older people in care homes, and other family and community settings.

Emily is also an established cabaret performer and producer, running shows in London and appearing regularly across the UK and internationally.

Paul Owens is an internationally recognised cultural strategist and policy adviser. He is Co-Founder of BOP, and alongside his fellow directors he has pioneered now well-established methods to measure the impact of cultural policy. He leads BOP’s international work across Asia, MENA and Latin America. Recent clients include the European Commission; the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports; InterAmerican Development Bank; and the Chengdu Municipal Government.

Paul founded the World Cities Culture Forum in 2012 to share best practice on promoting culture within urban policy in cities all over the world. Working with the Mayor of London’s team he has grown and managed a network of more than 40 major cities and an important independent soft power city network worldwide.

Bill Swainson is a publisher and literary consultant with over forty years’ experience in independent and mainstream publishing, editing a range of writers including Mourid Barghouti, Javier Cercas, Paul Durcan, Al Gore, A.C. Grayling, Dermot Healy, Rachel Holmes, Elizabeth Kolbert, Amin Maalouf, Laurie Penny, Agnès Poirier, Jacqueline Rose, Judith Schalansky, W.G. Sebald, Will Self, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Delphine de Vigan.

He was Senior Commissioning Editor at Bloomsbury (2000-15) and previously worked at the Harvill Press, Fourth Estate, Allison & Busby and John Calder Ltd. He is currently Consultant Editor at MacLehose Press, and Editor-at-Large for Non-Fiction at Oneworld. In 2015 he received an OBE for services to literary translation. Bill has been a board member of The Poetry Society, the Poetry Book Society and the Poetry Translation Centre, and today is a Trustee of the Cultural Philanthropy Foundation and the Lancaster Literature Festival.

Oonagh has worked across the cultural and social justice sector leading projects that combine compelling storytelling, education, community engagement and change-making. Having trained as a theatre director at the Donmar Warehouse, she has made critically-acclaimed work for Battersea Arts Centre, The Gate Dublin, Druid, Lyric Belfast, Soho Theatre, and the Abbey, Ireland’s national theatre. Her creative life has brought her into collaboration with refugees, young adults with experience of the care system, former sex workers and survivors of torture and trafficking. She received the inaugural Jo Cox Award for her work with LGBT asylum seekers, having co-founded Change of Address, an arts integration programme for individuals seeking asylum in Ireland. She is Director of Future Stories, a production company that specialises in co-creating work with historically under-represented communities, and is developing a documentary piece with prisoners of the Mountjoy prison progression unit in Dublin.