Songwriter, producer and musician, Crispin Hunt, is stepping down as Chair of The Ivors Academy Board to make way for a successor.
Hunt has steered the Academy, the preeminent body representing the interests of songwriters and composers, through an ambitious period of modernisation, growth and reform. The Academy Board will elect and announce its new Chair shortly. Crispin will continue to be actively involved in the Academy as a board director.
Crispin is a multi-platinum selling songwriter and producer. Former lead singer of the Longpigs, he has worked for Florence and The Machine, Jake Bugg, Tom Grennan, Lana Del Ray, Ellie Goulding, Natalie Imbruglia, Bat For Lashes, Rod Stewart and more. He is an elected council member of PRS for Music, former director of PPL, the FAC and UK Music, a music creator, advocate and consultant.
Hunt said in a statement:
"After five incredible years as Chair of The Ivors Academy, it is high time to let the future lead the future.
We have become the strong, representative and future-facing Academy British songwriters and composers deserve. We have campaigned successfully for music creators' rights - from the European Copyright Directive and Composers Against Buyouts to Fix Streaming - taking music creators’ concerns from footnotes to the front pages and successfully creating the environment for improvement.
In this time, we’ve launched a new brand without an acronym in sight, reformed our governance, re-launched our charitable trust, rejuvenated our fellowship programme, forged global alliances, welcomed new partners and done more than ever to champion our world-leading music creators.