Dame Vivien Duffield DBE, recipient of the 2011 Angel Award at the New York 2011 Congress, The Art of Collaboration.  View other ISPA Award winners.

Dame Vivien Duffield DBE

Dame Vivien Duffield continues the philanthropic legacy of her father Sir Charles Clore, one of Britain’s most successful post-war businessmen. After Sir Charles’ death in 1979, Dame Vivien assumed the Chairmanship of the Clore Foundations in the UK and in Israel. In the UK she also established her own Vivien Duffield Foundation in 1987 and merged the two in 2000 to create the Clore Duffield Foundation.

Dame Vivien’s UK Foundation has supported a wide range of performing arts organisations including the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, the Royal Ballet, the National Theatre, and the Southbank Centre – to name just a few – as well as scores of smaller projects. The Foundation has made a particular contribution to cultural education, and to arts leadership training, having launched the Clore Leadership Programme for the cultural sector in 2003: over 150 Clore Fellows have now graduated from the Programme.

In addition to the Chairmanship of her Foundation, Dame Vivien was a member of the Board of the Royal Opera House from 1990 to 2001 and is currently Chairman of the Royal Opera House Endowment Fund. She is a Director of the Southbank Centre board and a Governor of the Royal Ballet. For the past three years she has been Chair of Campaign for Oxford University where, amongst other donations, she has supported Graduate Scholarships in the Humanities and a Visiting Professorship for Opera Studies. She is currently working to create a Jewish Community Centre for London which will open in 2013, and remains Chairman of her Clore Foundation in Israel.

Dame Vivien’s charitable work in the UK was acknowledged with the award of a CBE in 1989 and DBE in 2000.