Biography: Anna Southall

Since 1996 Anna has chaired the Barrow Cadbury Trust, a charitable foundation which, through investment and grantmaking, promotes civil rights, racial justice, peace and democracy. She has sat on two recent Commissions on the Criminal Justice System - the Fawcett Commission on Women (2004), and Barrow Cadbury's Commission on Young People: Lost in Translation (2005). 

She is a member of the board of the Big Lottery Fund, which distributes grants totalling about £650million per year to people and communities most in need, and of the Executive Board of the Association of Charitable Foundations. 

Anna sits on a number of government advisory boards and panels including the Home Office's Advisory Panel on Futurebuilders, a new and innovative approach to funding for the Voluntary and Community Sector, and the Spoliation Advisory Panel, which examines the legal and moral aspects of claims by the descendants of those who, during the Nazi era, lost cultural objects that are now held by publicly funded collections in the UK, and advises the Department of Culture Media and Sport on a fair resolution of these cases.

Anna worked in the cultural sector for many years, and was Director of the National Museums & Galleries of Wales (1998-2002) and Chief Executive of the MLA, Museums Libraries and Archives Council until 2003, and is currently the chair of ICON, the Institute for Conservation.

To contact Anna please send an email to: [email protected]