Anna Umbima (UK)

internationally running training workshops, professional development programmes and helping people develop their communication and leadership skills. For two decades she worked with the music producers Serious on various projects and residential professional development programmes including: Take Five - for emerging jazz musicians, LEAP - which focused on Learning, Access and Participation and Move on Up - for artists of African and Caribbean origin.

She has helped to shape and run various music education and diversity initiatives including a scheme to promote diversity in opera, facilitating inter-religious dialogues and using music to examine inclusivity in the workplace. Anna was a journalist and broadcaster with the BBC including stints as a television producer, foreign correspondent and radio presenter on the World Service.