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Dame Hilary Boulding, (born 25 January 1957) is a British
academic administrator
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and former media professional. Since 2017, she has been the
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of
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,
University of Oxford
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, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
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. She formerly worked for the
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and
Arts Council England, and served as Principal of the
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
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Early life and education
Boulding was born on 25 January 1957.
She was educated at
Heaton School, a
state school in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
She studied music at
St Hilda's College, Oxford, graduating with a
Bachelor of Arts
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(BA) degree.
Career
Media career
Having left university, Boulding joined
BBC Scotland: she worked as a
television director
A television director is in charge of the activities involved in making a television program or section of a program. They are generally responsible for decisions about the editorial content and creative style of a program, and ensuring the prod ...
from 1981 to 1985, and a
television producer
A television producer is a person who oversees one or more aspects of video production on a television program. Some producers take more of an executive role, in that they conceive new programs and pitch them to the television networks, but upon ...
from 1985 to 1992.
She moved to
BBC Wales, where she was Head of Arts and Music from 1992 to 1997.
Then, from 1997 to 1999, she was
Commissioning Editor
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, Music (Policy) at
BBC Radio 3.
In 1999, Boulding left the BBC to join the
Arts Council of England
The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both h ...
as Director of Music.
The organisation was renamed Arts Council England in 2002, when the
regional arts boards were merged into it.
Academic career
In July 2007, Boulding was appointed the
Principal of the
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
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(RWCMD) in succession to
Edmond Fivet.
During her time in charge, she oversaw £22.5 million of development including the building of a 450-seat concert hall and a 160-seat theatre.
In September 2016, it was announced that Boulding had been elected as the next
President
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* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
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* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
of
Trinity College, Oxford
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, named_for = The Holy Trinity
, established =
, sister_college = Churchill College, Cambridge
, president = Dame Hilary Boulding
, location = Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BH
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, in succession to
Sir Ivor Roberts.
This made her the first woman in its 462-year history to head the college. She took up the appointment on 1 August 2017.
Personal life
In 2015, Boulding married John Summers, the chief executive of the
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.
Honours
In the
2017 Queen's Birthday Honours, Boulding was appointed a
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) "for services to education and culture in Wales", and thereby granted the
title
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''
dame''.
References
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Living people
1957 births
Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford
Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Presidents of Trinity College, Oxford
British television directors
British women television directors
British television producers
British women television producers
People associated with the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama