Anthony Sargent CBE

Anthony Sargent CBE studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford university, then worked for 15 years in BBC Radio and TV (in presentation, production and management); at London's Southbank Centre as Artistic Projects Director; at Birmingham City Council as Head of Arts; as External Partnerships Manager for the BBC's nationwide multi-platform Millennium Music Live; as founding General Director at Sage Gateshead (now The Glasshouse); as elected chair of the International Society for the Performing Arts; as CEO of Luminato Festival Toronto and most recently as Interim Director of Toronto's Koffler Centre of the Arts. He has written two major international studies of global lessons for the cultural sector from the Covid pandemic in 2021 and 2022