| ISPA 2026 New York Congress – Anthony Sargent CBE |
 Anthony Sargent CBEInternational Cultural Advisor After studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University, Anthony worked with BBC Radio and TV in presentation, production and management, including managing the artistic planning of the BBC Proms and BBC Symphony Orchestra. After working as Artistic Projects Director of London’s Southbank Centre he moved Birmingham City Council’s Head of Arts for ten years, co-leading with Sir Simon Rattle Birmingham’s acclaimed 10-year festival of the 20th Century, Towards the Millennium. After returning to the BBC in the management of its nationwide, multiplatform Millennium Music Live, he was founding General Director for fifteen years of The Glasshouse International Centre for Music before moving to Canada, first as CEO of Luminato Festival Toronto, then as Interim Director of the Koffler Centre of the Arts. He served for three years as Board Chair of ISPA and now, as an international cultural consultant, he has written a cycle of three major studies of the global implications of Covid-19 for the cultural sector published by the UK’s University of Leeds.
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