 | Colin Tweedy, LVO OBE, Chief Executive of London’s The Building Centre; previously chief executive at Arts and Business; Governor, University of the Arts; Director, Headlong Theatre (formerly the Oxford Stage Company); Secretary of the Global Advisory Board of the Mariinsky Theatre; founder and trustee, The Prince of Wales Arts & Kids Foundation; Senior Advisor to Futurecity, a cultural consultancy working with developers, local authorities and housing associations. He is a Member of the Council for Charitable Support, a trustee of the Serpentine Gallery and The Ideas Foundation and a Council member of the National Musicians Symphony Orchestra. He was elected a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute (2002), is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and was awarded Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, 2003. |
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"I was impressed by the intensity of the debate and the high level of intellectual engagement, not least by the audience. It was an invigorating, even exhilarating experience to be part of a festival based on the conviction that disagreement is good. The Battle of Ideas is a fantastic concept, may it spread epidemically to the rest of the world. I am already looking forward to next year's event."
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor of social anthropology, University of Oslo; novelist
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