Festival team
Festival chief executive and director: Sally Dunsmore
Festival board directors: George Warren (Chairman), Graham Benson (Deputy Chairman), 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: Andrea Reece
Strategic advisor: Lucian Hudson
American promotional consultant: Gary Zarr
Executive consultant – film, television and theatre: Graham Benson
Corporate consultants: Siren Communications Ltd
Website and content editor: Derek Holmes
Graphic design: Stafford & Stafford
Festival manager: Helen Porter
Assistant to special advisor: Sarah Burch
Director of academic programmes: Professor Jem Poster
PR and Assistant to the director: Katie Read
Programme printers: Seacourt Ltd Oxford
Digital strategy & website design: BearRamElk
Consultant Chef: Paul Bloomfield
Sheldonian Theatre events manager: Ben Truesdale
Director of the crime fiction programme: Triona Adams
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 Colin Blakemore, 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
Title partner
International radio partner
Festival ideas partner
Festival cultural partner
Partner of Jewish programme
Supporter of Italian programme
Supporters of the Irish programme
MIT Press. Sponsors of the programme of American literature and culture
Festival London hotel partner
Festival on-site and online bookseller
The festival hotel
Prestige publishing partner
Festival academic partner
Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture
Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture
Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture
Worcester College
Lincoln College
12th St Hilda's day at the festival
St Cross College: Festival college partner.
Woodstock festival hotel
Accountants to the festival
Sponsor of programme on science and medicine
Festival green room sponsor
Alumni Office
Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design
Local radio partner
Regional media partner
Oxford University Images
K T Bruce Photography
Estate agents
Siren Communications - corporate consultants
Wines of Provence
Wines of Tuscany
Wines of the Douro Valley
Festival printers
