Amanda Nevill

Amanda Nevill is an English arts administrator and is the current Director of the British Film Institute.

She was educated in Yorkshire and Paris. She set up the first British contemporary art fair at Bath in 1980 and subsequently led a major touring exhibition for Kodak.

She joined the Royal Photographic Society in 1985 and ran its archives and the commercial Centre in Bath. She became Company secretary and CEO in 1990, the first woman to hold the post.

She was appointed as Head of Museum at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (now the National Media Museum) in Bradford during the Spring of 1994. During her tenure, the Museum re-invented itself with a £16 million re-development fulfilling an ambitious vision taking it into the new digital era. The museum attracted over one million visitors in 2000 and won several national and international awards for design, content, innovation and excellence.

She joined the BFI as the organisation's director in June 2003.

Career achievements:
* Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society 1985
* Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
* Director of Yorkshire Arts, Arts & Business North, Bradford Breakthrough and Photo 98
* Council Member of the University of Bradford
* Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Bradford, conferred July 2000
* Director of the Urban Regeneration Company, Bradford

External links

* [http://www.bfi.org The British Film Institute]