Lizzie Clithero-West: A Week is a Long Time in Politics – Advocacy and the Political Outlook for Heritage?

Lizzie Glithero-West, CEO of the Heritage Alliance, the umbrella body for the independent heritage sector in England, will explore the current political outlook and how it relates to the heritage sector.

There are various challenges and opportunities related to Labour’s 5 missions, and work is underway to ensure that the role of heritage investment as a public policy good is understood by decision-makers. Lizzie will also draw on her experience in the civil service, as well as at the helm of an advocacy organisation, to unpack the advocacy toolkit and look at methods for achieving impact with decision-makers.

Biography 

Her previous career has been mainly in the civil service and she has expert knowledge of a wide range of policy areas including archaeology, heritage protection, museums and tourism. Lizzie has also spent time as Private Secretary to Culture Ministers and the Permanent Secretary, as Head of Logistics at DCMS at the time of the General Election, and on secondment to English Heritage and to the National Museum Directors’ Council. Lizzie’s first love is heritage. She has a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology from Oxford, and an MA in History of Art from Birkbeck. In 2014 she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Lizzie is a mummy of two energetic little women, writes about Cultural Education and tries to keep up with her academic interest in Egyptian Revival in her spare time. Lizzie has published on Belzoni and the Egyptian Hall and on Cartier’s Egyptian Revival Jewellery in the Art Deco Period. She is a member of Royal Holloway's humanities advisory board and lectures at Oxford University on heritage.