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Before moving in-house, she worked in the fields of EU and competition law, regulation and environmental law at Clifford Chance and then at three regulators, including as the Legal Director of OFWAT.

She has a passion for the visual arts, and holds an MA and PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she specialised in Modern British Art. She is also a trustee of the Royal Museums Greenwich.

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Her background includes significant work in the youth and LGBTQ+ sectors, including with large membership organisations like the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and the British Youth Council. After spending a few years designing and delivering UK-wide and global youth programmes, her direct experience leading a charity through financial difficulties and eventual closure led her to shift her professional focus.

Now, as Director of Operations and Finance at The Economist Educational Foundation, she creates the systems - spanning financial strategy, people and culture, and governance - to develop organisational strength and sustainability. 

Originally from France, Elsa has embraced British traditions during her almost decade in the UK. This cultural exploration, alongside her keenness for ceilidh dancing, sparked her interest in folk arts and how they evolve to remain inclusive in today’s world.

These include with Friends of the Earth, London Wildlife Trust, VSO, Sustrans, The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens. He set up Green Future Associates CIC (2016) and instigated the Urban Agriculture Consortium (2019). He is also a trained oral historian and has worked on the Oral History of the Environmental Movement project at Royal Holloway, University of London (2022-25).

Jeremy’s journey into music started with his first guitar in 1970. He has played for fun ever since, initially in rock and roll and punk bands in Devon, and now as part of The Island Folk Choir, and All@Sea Ceilidh Collective in Bristol. In 2025 he launched a local folk club and comperes – somewhat erratically, but enthusiastically.  In other parts of his life he is a cyclist, allotment grower, painter, and sailor. 

This includes global physical and digital distribution, artist and label services, publishing, sales, and press and promotion. Drew joined Proper in 2007 and has held numerous senior management roles prior to his appointment as MD in 2010. Representing over 700 companies, Proper handles over a quarter of the UK’s independent physical music market.

Drew was elected chair of the Official Charts Company (OCC), the organisation which compiles the UK’s benchmark music and video sales data and charts, in September 2024. He is also an elected Director on the board of the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA), representing the majority of UK retailers and digital services offering music, video and games. He has been included on a number of Billboard Power Lists, including Billboard’s International Power Players (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021) and Indie Power Players (2022, 2021 & 2020).

She has a life-long love of the folk arts even if, by her own admission, her own dancing skills are laughable.

In her current role, she oversees all curatorial and research development functions. She has led the Library's international engagement activities for over a decade, working with partners around the world to advance knowledge and mutual understanding.

Marcie has worked extensively on major transformational capital and change programmes, and in recent years focussed on establishing collaborative training programmes in the UK and abroad. These include an ‘International Library Leaders Programme’ and heritage protection training hubs on 5 continents. She was Secretary General for the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) between 2015 and 2021 and Vice-Chair of the IFLA Europe Regional Division Committee 2021-2025. She sits on several Editorial Boards for professional library journals. In her free time she enjoys making music with her children’s school community and learning Scottish Gaelic.

She is Director of Operations at international NGO the Centre for Music Ecosystems, advancing the transformative power of music policy. In 2025, she was elected Vice Chair of the European Music Council, the umbrella organisation for musical life in Europe.

Angharad leads the Music Policy Resilience Network, connecting 20 remote and isolated cities worldwide—including those in Greenland and Kyrgyzstan, through to Australia—to develop new music policy. In 2023, she led the European Music Policy Exchange, a large-scale study bringing together best practices in music policy from every EU country.

She thrives on working with artists and organisations, drawing on her combined expertise in fundraising, producing, and coaching to enable new creative projects to flourish. She is especially passionate about new, experimental and traditional musics and is a keen fiddle player.

They work with two Sheffield folk organisations – Sound Post and Folk Factory – as well as playing with ceilidh bands.

He is currently Head of Research for Risk and Quantitative Analysis. He has also held similar positions at Merrill Lynch Investment Management, AXA and Franklin Portfolio Managers.
 
Ed studied economics at the Universities of Liverpool and Cambridge and has supervised undergraduate economics for Queens’ College, Cambridge. He chaired the University of Liverpool’s investment sub-committee from 2023-26 and is Chair of the London Quant Group.

Ed joined the Board of EFDSS in 2012 as Honorary Treasurer, serving from 2012-2018 and from 2019 to present. He developed his love of folk music when a post-graduate student in Cambridge.