Cristina Ward

Cristina Ward has been Head of Arts of the British Council in Spain since January 2023. Her professional career in the area of arts management in Spain spans more than thirty years, dating from her move from the UK to Madrid in the late 1980s. She has worked for a variety of private and public cultural institutions including the agency that organised the Madrid, European Capital of Culture 1992 programme, the National Youth Orchestra of Spain, the Spanish Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers (SGAE) and the Spanish Association of Symphony Orchestras. She has also worked as a free-lance production manager running opera and theatre productions and festivals in Spain, China and Mexico.