| Manchester 2023 ISPA - Abid Hussain |
 Abid HussainDirector, Diversity Abid is Director, Diversity at Arts Council England, the national development agency for arts and culture leading the organisation's work on Equity, Inclusion and Diversity. He is an alumnus of both the U.S. International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP) and Salzburg Global Seminar responding to themes of art and social change, migration, displaced artists and conflict transformation. Abid has led on the development of the Arts Council's strategic equality and diversity framework since 2014. He has played a pivotal role in helping the organisation achieve greater equity and diversity in the distribution of its funding and investment to support a more inclusive arts and cultural ecology. He was responsible for the development and launch of the organisation’s Elevate programme which has supported over 50 arts companies secure national portfolio and regular investment status since 2018 and involved in the strategic delivery of Unlimited supporting disabled artists present work across the UK and internationally. Abid has extensive experience of working with cultural institutions, academia, government and third sector agencies internationally across North America, Europe, Asia, South Africa and Australasia and is a contributing author to a number of academic texts and journals on equality, diversity and inclusion. He completed an MBA degree at Aston University in 2021. Speaker |
