Graham Devlin is a writer and director in both theatre and opera, a senior arts manager and a cultural strategist. As an artist, he has directed in the UK, Europe, the United States, and Australia for, amongst others, the National Theatre, Aldeburgh Festival, Scottish Opera, Glyndebourne, Adzido Pan-African Dance Company, Nitro and the Sydney Opera House. As a manager, he has run theatres and festivals as well as his own successful touring theatre company Major Road from 1973 to 1997, at which point he was appointed deputy secretary general and acting chief executive of the Arts Council of England. He has worked as a consultant, specializing in the field of cultural strategy, and was chair of Phoenix Dance for seven years, has served on numerous Arts Council and Government committees and is currently a board member of the Royal Court Theatre in London. He has also been visiting professor of cultural policy at Queen Margaret's University College in Edinburgh. Most recently, he was one of the founders - and is now the chair - of Tipping Point, a new non-profit organization, which works with artists an scientists to explore ways in which the creative imagination can be brought to bear on the issue of climate change through organizing events and symposia, acting as a forum for discussion with government and supporting projects.