Bernard Donoghue OBE (Chair)

Bernard Donoghue is the Chief Executive of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) and was Chairman of the award-winning London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) which he had chaired since 2010. In May 2017 he was appointed to be a member of the Mayor of London’s Cultural Leadership Board and is the Mayor’s Ambassador for Culture. He has been a member of the UK Government’s Tourism Industry Council since 2015.

He is a Trustee of the People’s History Museum in Manchester, and a former trustee of The Museum of the Home, WWF-UK, Centrepoint and the Heritage Alliance.