Bernard Donoghue
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Bernard has been on the board of Centrepoint since 1995. He is
chair of the board's marketing and communications committee and was
chair of the 40th Anniversary Committee (2009).
He is chairman of the London International Festival of Theatre
(LIFT); a fellow and trustee of the World-Wide Fund for Nature UK
and chair of WWF-UK's 50th Anniversary Taskforce; a member of the
Cathedral Council of St Paul's Cathedral, London; and is a trustee
and fellow of the Tourism Society. He was a board director of
Marketing Manchester, 2001-2010, and chairman of VisitManchester,
the Manchester tourist board, 2008-2010. He was co-chair of British
Tourism Week, 2008-2010.
Bernard has held lobbying, policy, campaigning and
communications roles for VisitBritain, the national tourist board;
the National AIDS Trust; Sense, the National Deafblind and Rubella
Organisation; and Disability Daily, a national campaigning
consortium of disability and carers' organisations, which he
founded. Bernard has worked as a policy and communications advisor
in the House of Lords and Commons for various MPs and peers; for
the secretary-general of the Council of Europe, based in
Strasbourg; for the Royal Household, and for the late Diana,
Princess of Wales. He was a member of the Prime Minister's
Communications Advisory Group between 2007 and 2009.
He is a former chair of the British Youth Council, London Youth
Matters, and the Commonwealth Youth Forum, and was the first chair
of the Youth Forum of the United Nations. He is a former
trustee of the National Youth Agency. Bernard has been a judge
of the British Environment and Media Awards and the Museums and
Galleries Awards for several years. He is a fellow of the Royal
Society for the Arts, a fellow of the Tourism Society, fellow of
WWF-UK, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Public
Relations. He lives in London.