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12 March 2008
Mick Elliott, currently Chief Executive of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, has been appointed as the new Director of Culture at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Mr Elliott, who is also Associate Cultural director of Liverpool Capital of Culture, will take up his post in June.
Notes to Editors
1. Mick Elliott joined the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic as Chief Executive in January 2001.
Mick is a former Chief Executive of the Heart of England Tourist Board and from 1989 until 1996, he was Chief Executive of West Midlands Arts, the Regional Arts Board for the West Midlands. He has advised successive governments on cultural policy and the creation of national and regional structures in both arts and tourism.
2. In 2006, Mick was appointed, on a part-time secondment from his position at the Liverpool Phil, as Associate Cultural Director of the Liverpool Culture Company to advise the creative team on planning, its relationship with the cultural organisations and practitioners in Liverpool and to build on the already close links with the DCMS and Arts Council England. He has also led the partnership of the major cultural institutions in the City which has attracted significant new investment of national funding in Liverpool.
