Professor Jon Cook : Chair
Professor Jon Cook is Chair of Arts Council England, East. He is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Professor of Literature and Director of the Centre for Creative and Performing Arts at the University of East Anglia, which hosts the Spring International Literary Festival at UEA and the Visiting Writers' series at the Savile Club in London. He has taught at universities in the United States, Europe and India, most recently as a Hurst Visiting Professor at the University of Washington. He is on the international advisory board of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College and a literature advisor to the British Council. He played an active role in establishing the Writers' Centre, Norwich, the literary organisation formerly known as New Writing Partnership.