Festival team
Festival chief executive and director: Sally Dunsmore
Festival board directors: Jarl Severn (Chairman), Sir Ben Okri OBE, Carole Allan, Kate Farquhar-Thomson, Paul Simons, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton LVO MBE DL
Festival president: Miles Young
Special advisor: Tony Byrne
President Emeritus: John Harris
Director of children’s and young people’s programme: Ben O’Donnell
Strategic advisor: Professor Lucian Hudson
Major projects director: Dr Stephen Law
American promotional consultant: Gary Zarr
Website and content editor: Derek Holmes
Festival manager: Helen Porter
Graphic design: Stafford & Stafford
Assistant to special advisor: Sarah Burch
Director of academic programmes: Professor Jem Poster
Director of the crime fiction programme: Triona Adams
Founding director of the programme of Georgian literature and culture: Dr Maya Jaggi
PR and media: Katie Read katie@readmedia.co.uk
Digital strategy and website design: BearRamElk
Consultant chef: Paul Bloomfield
Sheldonian Theatre events manager: Ben Truesdale
Manager of festival volunteers: Katie Schutte
Advisor to the Voices of Europe programme: Boyd Tonkin
Corporate communications: Force4Good Consultancy
Photography: KT Bruce
Festival stewards: We also thank all the voluntary festival stewards for their time and generous support throughout the festival. If you are interested in volunteering at the festival please contact volunteers@oxfordliteraryfestival.org
Patrons: Dame Joan Bakewell, Professor John Carey, Professor Richard Dawkins, Daisy Goodwin, Joanne Harris, Peter Kemp, Mark Lawson, The Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, PC, Sir Peter Stothard, Professor Ian Goldin, Alex Preston, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
The Oxford Literary Festival was co-founded by Sally Dunsmore and Angie Prysor-Jones.