James is Senior Advisor, External Affairs and Policy at Southbank Centre responsible for Government and stakeholder relations. Prior to this James has held several Government and creative sector roles and was most recently Head of Arts at the Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport. James became a Trustee in December 2018 and is excited to be able to support this remarkable organisation as it plans for the future doing important and innovative work at the cutting edge of the arts, health and wellbeing agenda.