Adrian Ellis

Adrian is the founder of AEA Consulting (1990) and the Global Cultural Districts Network (2013). He has worked in senior management and as a board member in both museums and the performing arts and as a strategy consultant to leading clients in the cultural, public, and business sectors around the world Adrian served as Executive Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center from 2007 to 2012. He began his career as a civil servant in the UK Treasury and the Cabinet Office and was Executive Director of the Conran Foundation which established the Design Museum in London in 1989.