Advisory Committee on Arts and Creativity. She is chair of Metal, a member of the London Cultural Consortium, and a member of the Dishaa Advisory Group. She previously sat on the board of Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) when it ran the government's flagship creative learning programme, Creative Partnerships, funded by the government with £40m per year by the education and cultural departments, working in one in five schools in England, reaching more than 1 million young people over 10 years. She is Chair of the Trustees for World Book Night, and was on the Cultural Olympiad Board that was responsible for delivering the creative, cultural and educational aspects of London's Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. Despite her involvement in these significant investments by the UK government in the preceding ten years, in 2013, she claimed that no action had been taken by the state relating to young people's cultural education since the 1999 NACCCE report or the Henley Review in 2012. She is visiting professor at Kingston University, Leeds University and at Shanghai Performing Arts School. In October 2012, Kelly was presented with a BASCA Gold Badge Award in recognition of her services to music. In February 2013 she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4, and also recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women. Already Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to the arts. In September 2018, to mark Time Out magazine's 50th anniversary, she was one of 50 people featured as helping to shape London's cultural landscape and "make the city awesome". References External links Metal 1954 births Living people 2012 Summer Olympics cultural ambassadors Alumni of the University of Birmingham Artistic directors BBC 100 Women Commanders of the Order of the British Empire English theatre directors Fellows of King's College London People from Liverpool Southbank Centre Theatre people from Merseyside Women theatre directors