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Sir John Tusa new chair of Clore Leadership programme

Governance | 1 Dec 2008

The Clore Leadership Programme, founded in 2003, is an initiative of the Clore Duffield Foundation, which aims to strengthen leadership across a wide range of cultural activities. This includes visual and performing arts, film, heritage, museums, libraries and archives, creative industries and cultural policy and administration.

It offers Fellowships and Short Courses for individual leaders, and training for members of Boards of Directors and senior staff of cultural organisations. It also disseminates best practice and speaks out as advocate for cultural leadership and excellence. Sue Hoyle was appointed Director of the Clore Leadership Programme in August this year.

John Tusa was born in Czechoslovakia and came to Britain in 1939. He joined the BBC as a General Trainee in 1960 and subsequently worked in all parts of the BBC as a producer and presenter. He become Managing Director of BBC World Service in 1986 where he remained until 1992, a period during which the foundations of BBC World Service Television were laid. After a short spell as President of Wolfson College, Cambridge in 1993, he was appointed Managing Director of the Barbican Centre in 1995 where he remained until August 2007.
 
He is Chairman of the Court of Governors for the University of the Arts London and also Chairman of the Wigmore Hall Trust, a Vice Chairman of the British Museum and a Trustee of The Turquoise Mountain Trust Foundation. He is a regular broadcaster, conducting 55 extended interviews with living artists for BBC Radio 3 and writing and presenting BBC Radio 4’s The Making of 1968 – Day By Day and has written books on broadcasting, arts policy, arts management and the nature of creativity.
 
Sir John Tusa will work closely with Sue Hoyle and the Executive Team of the Clore Leadership Programme to build on the success of the programme going forward.
 
Dame Vivien Duffield, Chair, Clore Duffield Foundation, said: “I am delighted that Sir John is taking up the role, joining us as we move forward to the next stage in the work of the Programme. I want to thank Nichola Johnson, our current Chair, for her outstanding contribution to the work of the Clore Leadership Programme over the last five years and I am delighted that she will be remaining on the Board for a further term of office.”

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