Team

• Staff team
  • Sir John Tusa
  • Sue Hoyle
  • Sharon Armstrong-Williams
  • Helen Acton
  • Fiona Cameron
  • Alisha Whittington
  • Llorenc Pastor
• Associates
• Board of Directors
• Strategic Advisory Committee

Director

Sue Hoyle was educated at Nottingham High School for Girls and Bristol University. She began her career as a university lecturer and tutor in adult education before joining London Festival Ballet (now English National Ballet) initially in the Press and Marketing department, and then becoming its first Education Officer. She left to be Manager of Extemporary Dance Theatre and then joined the Arts Council of Great Britain as Dance and Mime Officer. She was promoted to Director of Dance and in 1994 to Deputy Secretary General of Arts Council England. In 1997 she was appointed Head of Arts for the British Council in Paris. Prior to joining the Clore Leadership Programme, she was Executive Director of The Place, London's international centre for contemporary dance, for five years.

Sue is a Trustee of the British Council, is a visiting Research Associate in Creative & Cultural Industries at King's College London, and is a founding Board member and previously Executive Chair of Create KX, a development agency for the creative and cultural industries in King's Cross. She is a patron of the Foundation for Community Dance and has previously been a Director on the Boards of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, DV8 Physical Theatre, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Theatre and Ricochet Dance Productions; until recently she was a Council member of the Franco-British Council and Arts Council England's Lead Advisor for Dance. As a consultant and facilitator, she has worked with a range of UK and overseas institutions, including the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and ELIA, and is co-author of a comparative study on funding for culture in France and Britain.

Sue was appointed Deputy Director of the Clore Leadership Programme when it was created in 2003, and became Director in August 2008.