UK Soft Power Council: membership
Published 17 January 2025
© Crown copyright 2025
This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3 or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or email: psi@nationalarchives.gov.uk.
Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned.
This publication is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-soft-power-council-membership-and-terms-of-reference/uk-soft-power-council-membership
The Soft Power Council is co-chaired by:
- The Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, David Lammy
- The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Lisa Nandy
Members of the UK Soft Power Council:
- Sir Peter Bazalgette, Royal College of Art
- General Sir Nick Carter, Former Chief of Defence Staff
- Richard Deverell, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Dame Linda Dobbs, Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office
- Dame Katherine Grainger, UK Sport
- Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Sport Wales
- Dr Comfort Ero, International Crisis Group
- Tom Fussell, BBC Studios
- Peter Gowers, British Tourist Authority
- Francesca Hegyi, Edinburgh International Festival
- Debbie Hewitt, The Football Association
- Dr Tristram Hunt, Victoria and Albert Museum
- Dr Parag Khanna, AlphaGeo
- Tom Kiehl, UK Music
- Mark Leonard, European Council on Foreign Relations
- Professor Helen McCarthy, Queen’s University Belfast
- Scott McDonald, British Council
- Lord Mendoza, Historic England
- Dr Sara Pantuliano, ODI Global
- Vivienne Stern, Universities UK
- Anthony Smith, Westminster Foundation for Democracy
- Patrick Stevens, International Justice Development
- Dr Vijaya Ramachandran, Breakthrough Institute
- Roland Rudd, FGS Global
- Ewan Venters, GREAT Private Sector Council
- Dr Linda Yueh, University of Oxford