| Anthony Sargent CBE Bio |
 Anthony Sargent CBEInternational Artistic Advisor After studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University, Anthony worked for thirteen years in BBC Radio and TV presentation, production and management, including leading the artistic planning for the BBC Proms and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. After working as Artistic Projects Director of London’s Southbank Centre he moved to Birmingham City Council as Head of Arts, creating Birmingham’s first Arts Strategy and leading the Council’s major arts projects, investments and festivals, 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 team for the nationwide Radio and TV Millennium Music Live festival, he was founding General Director for 15 years of Sage Gateshead (England’s award-winning international centre for music performance and education) before moving to Canada to lead Luminato Festival Toronto as its second CEO. Now an international cultural advisor and consultant, an ISPA member for 30 years, ISPA Board Chair 2013-2016 and presenter of 20 editions of ISPA’s global Pitch New Works, for the last 18 months he has been working on two international studies of the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for the cultural and creative sector, the first published by the Centre for Cultural Value of the UK’s University of Leeds in September 2021 and the follow-up study in May 2022. |
