BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Professor Sir Gordon Conway FRS (Chair)
Gordon is a world renowned agricultural ecologist who has worked and lived in numerous countries around the world. He was a leader in defining the concept of sustainable agriculture and has written extensively on applied ecology, resource and environmental management, and international development. He has worked as a Representative of the Ford Foundation in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. As Chair of the Runnymede Trust's Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia he produced the report Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All in 1997. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex before becoming President of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York from which he now joins us. He has just been appointed as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for International Development and will also soon take up a new role as Professor of International Development at Imperial College. Alongside all of his other activities Gordon has had a continuing interest in the arts, especially in developing countries. During his time at the Ford Foundation in India there was a significant arts and humanities programme and the India Foundation for the Arts was created.
Cathie Boyd
Cathie founded Theatre Cryptic in 1994, and has produced and directed all productions to date. Her work has involved numerous international collaborations and has been seen widely across Europe and the Americas. She also works as a freelance opera director and has received many awards including European Woman of Achievement for the Arts 1999 and a three year NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts) Fellowship in 2001.
www.cryptic.org.uk
Ajay Chhabra
Ajay is a director and actor whose work has been described as cross art-form and multi-disciplinary. He is co-director of production company Nutkhut ("mischievous"), which he formed with his partner, dancer and choreographer Simmy Gupta. Ajay is Artistic Director of the London Mela. As an actor, he plays a regular character in The Basil Brush Show and in The Archers. Recently he has produced a series for BBC School Radio, Come to Kochi , presented from Kerala, India. Ajay has just finished performing in the Alan Bennett play Kafka's Dick at the Derby Playhouse.
www.nutkhut.net
Romesh Gunesekera
Romesh is the author of four highly acclaimed novels - The Match published in paperback this year, Heaven's Edge, The Sandglass , and Reef (shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize) - and of Monkfish Moon , a collection of short stories. His literary awards include the BBC's inaugural Asia Award for Writing & Literature and a Yorkshire Post Book Award. His writing is widely anthologized and published in more than ten languages. Romesh has been a judge for the David Cohen Prize for British Literature, the Caine Prize for African Writing and the Amnesty Media Awards, and a guest Director at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. He has also worked for the British Council. Currently he is on the Council of the Arvon Foundation. In 2005 he received a National Honour for his writing from Sri Lanka, and the year before was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London.
www.romeshgunesekera.com
Graham Long
Graham is Head of Culture, Sport and Tourism for the East of England Development Agency, one of England's nine regional development agencies. Graham has over 20 years of senior management experience in funding, strategic management, the arts, and publishing. He has been Deputy Chief Executive of the Lloyds TSB Foundation, Director of Operations for English National Opera, Executive Director of Planning and Resources for Arts Council England, Chief Executive of South West Arts, Head of Finance and Resources for Northern Arts, and Group Financial Controller for the Orion Publishing Group.
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Staff
Director's Unit
Yvette Vaughan Jones
Executive Director
Andy Kyriakides
Assistant to Director's Unit
Cultural Operations
Nelson Fernandez
Director Cultural Operations
Sabrina Smith-Noble
Arts Manager (Performing Arts)
Kathryn Standing
Arts Manager (Visual Arts)
Sioned Hughes
Arts Manager (Professional Development)
Adam J Knights
Arts Projects Co-ordinator
Finance and Internal Operations
Sri Rajaratnam
Director Finance and Internal Operations
K G Abeysingha
Assistant Accountant
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