Ruth Daniel
CEO. Artistic Director. Activist. Change-Maker. Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Manchester.
Ruth Daniel is a multi-award winning CEO and Artistic Director of international NGO, In Place of War, an organisation working with music, art and creativity in places of armed conflict, social injustice and affected by climate change. A former co-founder of ground-breaking alternative music industry event, Un-Convention; independent record label founder and boss and musician, playing with many bands, but most notably cult Manchester band, The Fall.
She has been a consultant at many international festivals, including Primavera Pro, Barcelona, Shoko Festival in Zimbabwe and DoaDoa in Uganda. She has also held the position of Interim AP Director, Education Skills Fitter, EIT Culture and Creativity.
She has produced critically acclaimed music collaborations across the world and instigated major international arts projects - from collaborations between jazz musicians in Soweto with UK electronic pioneers, Coldcut to music featuring frogs in the Colombian rainforest and Brian Eno to indigenous artists in the Arctic and Bicep.
Working for over twenty years in communities, music and the arts, academia and the NGO sector, she has an extensive knowledge of how to make meaningful, impactful and artistic projects to the highest artistic quality. She loves to bring interesting and experienced people together to devise, create and disrupt, and has an extensive address book, spanning world-leading academics, musicians, artists, authors, community leaders and indigenous communities.
Ruth is a proud member of the Nordic Music Leaders Network.
