The UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced the members of its Creative Industries Taskforce.
Set up in November with the aim of informing the government’s strategy to unlock growth in the creative sector, the taskforce met for the first time on Wednesday 18th December.
Co-chaired by Baroness Shriti Vadera and Sir Peter Bazalgette, the group features tech entrepreneurs, investors and academics, with Sir William Sargent, Philippa Childs, Lynn Barber and Tom Adeyoola representing the TV industry.
The full list of members is:
- Baroness Shriti Vadera (co-chair), chair, Royal Shakespeare Company, and future CIC co-chair
- Sir Peter Bazalgette (co-chair), current CIC co-chair
- Francesca Hegyi OBE, CEO, Edinburgh International Festival
- Prof Hasan Bakhshi MBE, director, Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
- Caroline Norbury OBE, CEO, Creative UK
- Stephen Page, executive chair, Faber
- Caroline Rush CBE, CEO, British Fashion Council
- Prof Christopher Smith, CEO, AHRC
- Tom Adeyoola, co-founder, Extend Ventures, and non-executive board member, Channel 4
- Lynn Barlow, academic and TV producer
- Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire
- Philippa Childs, deputy general secretary, Bectu Sector of Prospect
- Saul Klein OBE, investor and member of the Council of Science and Tech
- Sir William Sargent, chair and co-founder, Framestore
- Prof Jonathan Haskel CBE, professor of economics, Imperial Business School
- Syima Aslam MBE, founder and CEO, Bradford Literature Festival
The taskforce is helping to develop the government’s Creative Industries Sector Plan, which identifies the sector as one of eight growth-driving areas under the recently announced Industrial Strategy.
Creative Industries Minister Sir Chris Bryant said, “Our world-leading creative industries, which are worth £125 billion to the economy and employ millions of people, were identified as a key growth-driving sector in the government’s Industrial Strategy. The sector will have a critical role to play in helping us deliver the mission of this government to drive economic growth into all of our towns and cities. This taskforce will be central to achieving that goal, by helping to draw up a bold and ambitious Sector Plan which will enable further growth and innovation in the creative industries by unlocking private investment, boosting exports and developing our highly skilled creative workforce.”
