Board and Staff
The Festivals Edinburgh board comprises the CEOs or Directors of its member festivals:
Chair
Sorcha Carey: Director, Edinburgh Art Festival
Board Members
- Buster Howes: Chief Executive, Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
- Belinda McElhinney: Executive Director, Edinburgh International Children's Festival
- Dr Simon Gage OBE: Director, Edinburgh Science Festival
- Ken Hay: CEO, Edinburgh International Film Festival
- Francesca Hegyi OBE: Executive Director, Edinburgh International Festival
- Shona McCarthy: Chief Executive, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society
- Sophie Moxon: Operations & Finance Director, Edinburgh International Book Festival
- Donald Smith: Director, Scottish International Storytelling Festival
- Fiona Alexander: Producer of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival
- Charlie Wood: Director, Edinburgh's Hogmanay
Festivals Edinburgh staff:
- Julia Amour: Director
- Kirstie Allan: Administrator
- Mikaela Atkins-Blake: Digital Content Officer [Momentum]
- Romane Boyer: Environmental Sustainability Officer
- Sunniva Ramsay: International Projects Manager
- James McVeigh: Head of Marketing & Innovation
- Gary Stewart: General Manager
- Alexis Woolley: Bookkeeper
- vacant: Senior Digital Officer
- vacant: Senior Media & Communications Officer