WNikhil Chinapa is an Indian DJ, host and festival curator, often credited with popularizing EDM among the youth in India. He has been associated with MTV India since the late 1990s and has appeared in multiple television shows including Roadies and Splitsvilla. He has been instrumental in popularizing DJing as a profession and leading the music scene at the Sunburn Festival in its early years.
WCristina Fuentes La Roche OBE is International Director at Hay Festival, which she has worked at since 2005. She has been involved in creating and directing these festivals in areas including Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Lebanon, and Perú.
WPeter Kenrick Florence CBE is a British festival director, most notable for founding the Hay Festival with his father and mother, Norman Florence and Rhoda Florence, funding the first festival with winnings from a poker game.
WWilliam Hauritz AM is the director of the Woodford Folk Festival held annually in Queensland, Australia. In 2018, he was named as one of the Queensland Greats by Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in a ceremony at the Queensland Art Gallery on 8 June 2018.
WMichael Herrmann is a German culture and music administrator. He founded the Rheingau Musik Festival in 1987 and is its Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer. He also runs a concert agency in the Frankfurt Alte Oper, the Pro Arte Konzertdirektion, and started an agency for concerts in the Kurhaus Wiesbaden in 2019, Wiesbaden Musik, beginning with a concert on his 75th birthday.
WAndreas Heusser is a Swiss conceptual artist and curator, based in Zurich and Johannesburg.
WKristiina Kolehmainen was a Finnish-Swedish librarian. She was head of Serieteket, the only special library for comics in Sweden, which she founded in 1996. She participated in and was responsible for a wide series of related events and activities, including the small exhibition which later grew into the Small Press Expo, and from 2012, the Stockholm International Comics Festival. Kolehmainen also worked as a translator, exhibition producer, and festival director.
WFrie Leysen was a Belgian festival director. She was director of the art centre deSingel from 1980 until 1991. In 1994, she co-founded the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels.
WCaro Llewellyn is an Australian Business executive, artistic director, festival manager and nonfiction writer. As of 2021 she is chief executive officer of the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne.
WMohammad Motamedi is an Iranian traditional vocalist, and a Ney player.
WClaude Nobs was the founder and general manager of the Montreux Jazz Festival.
WAdam Pierończyk is a Polish jazz saxophonist and composer. He plays tenor and soprano saxophones, as well as the zoucra.
WBill Rauch is an American theatre director. He was named the inaugural artistic director of the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center in 2016. Currently in development, the Perelman is the final piece of the plan to revitalize the World Trade Center site and will create work which inspires hope.
WUlrich Schreiber is the founder and director of the International Literature Festival Berlin and - together with Hans Ruprecht - founder and director of the International Literature Festival Odessa.
WVilho Siivola was a Finnish actor, film director, television director and a member of the Council of Theatre.
WFiona Stewart is managing director and owner of the Green Man Festival, an annual independent music festival in Wales. She also sits as chair of the Green Man Trust, a charitable organisation. Stewart has worked as a consultant for the British Council and the Foreign Office. She has previously worked at Glastonbury Festival and Big Chill.