Lady Sue Woodford-Hollick

Sue Woodford-Hollick was the founding Commissioning Editor of multicultural programmes for Channel 4 and has made a significant contribution to supporting inclusion in the UK, in broadcasting and the arts.

Sue studied English at Sussex University between 1964-67 before launching a career as an investigative journalist and award-winning current affairs producer for Granada Television, where she spent many years as a producer/director of the flagship series World in Action before moving to help launch Channel 4.

She was Chair of Arts Council England – London, and a member of the ACE National Council for many years.  She is a former trustee and current advisor to Music for my Mind, a charity which aims to bring personalised music to dementia sufferers and their carers, and was the founding Chair of the Stuart Hall Foundation, established in memory of cultural theorist, Professor Stuart Hall.  She is a Patron of the Runnymede Trust, One World Media, and the Stuart Hall Foundation and an Ambassador for Reprieve, the anti-death penalty organisation.

Sue has held many directorships in the arts and business, including serving on the boards of the Theatre Museum, Contemporary Dance Trust, Complicité Theatre Company, Tate Members, the Royal Commonwealth Society, English National Opera and Free Word.  For seven years she was Chair of Index on Censorship, the international magazine for Free Speech. She is currently a trustee of the Hollick Family Foundation.

Other organisations she is associated with include AMREF, the African Medical Research Foundation, Africa’s largest health charity, Leader’s Quest and the Leaders Quest Foundation 

In 1989 she co-founded, Bringing Up Baby, a day nursery group, which she successfully sold in 2019.

Sue was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to the arts.