EFFEA Jury

Peter Florence was educated at Cambridge and the Sorbonne. He founded the Hay Festival in 1988 and has since established and consulted for 18 multi-artform festivals around the world from Brazil to Bangladesh and in Europe from Belfast to Budapest. He has run Brecon Jazz Festival and The Orange Word in London. He is a Trustee of the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Deborah Rogers Foundation. He is a jury member of EFFEA, and a Friend of Oxfam. He was awarded a CBE for services to Literature and Charity and is a "Colombiano de Corazon”. He lectures on festivals’ sustainability, creative industries, and cultural regeneration.