Emily Campbell
Head of Design, British Council
British Council

Emily Campbell is the British Council Arts Group's first Head of Design & Architecture. Appointed in 1996, she has led the development of a diverse programme of exhibitions and collaborative projects overseas and specialist visits to the UK. The objective of this programme is to increase the understanding of design in the world at large and to promote the strengths of British design to educational, business and cultural audiences through the British Council's network in 110 countries. Emily has commissioned the British Pavilion at the last two and the current (2006) Venice Biennales of Architecture and of the first major international design exhibitions to tour India and China. She has a BA in English Literature from Cambridge, a diploma in clothing technology from the London College of Fashion and an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale School of Art. Before joining the British Council she had been a pattern-cutter for the fashion designer Jean Muir, a project manager at Pentagram in London and a senior graphic designer with Michael Bierut at Pentagram in New York, where she worked on ground-breaking visual identities and campaigns for Brooklyn Academy of Music and Princeton University. She was on the RIBA Awards Group and the Jury for Designer of the Year 2006.