Dr Paul Belford FSA MCIfA

Dr Paul Belford FSA MCIfADr Paul Belford FSA MCIfADr Paul Belford FSA MCIfA

Dr Paul Belford FSA MCIfA

Dr Paul Belford FSA MCIfADr Paul Belford FSA MCIfADr Paul Belford FSA MCIfA
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More than 30 years‘ cultural heritage experience in private and not-for-profit organisations. Always striving to balance ethical professionalism, pragmatic problem-solving and academic rigour.

A non-linear career with diverse and overlapping roles has provided a rich experience of different ways of working across a range of organisations, sometimes in challenging circumstances. 

Highlights

  • Nine years as CEO of a not-for-profit archaeology and cultural heritage organisation providing a unique range of services to public and private sector clients in the UK.
  • Five years' senior leader / CEO in for-profit international consultancy, leading a range of cultural heritage projects and public interpretation programmes.
  • Over ten years leading a profitable commercial archaeology team, as a senior manager within one of the UK’s leading independent museums with £9m turnover.
  • A decade managing archaeological collections and monuments in a World Heritage Site, leading multi-agency heritage-led conservation and research projects.
  • More than twenty years' service as a Trustee and Non-Executive Director for a range of charities, from small learned societies to £20m visitor attractions.
  • Over a decade of field-based management and leadership across the full spectrum of development-driven archaeology, running projects with £2m+ budgets and up to 100 staff.
  • Substantial experience of teaching, mentoring and supervision in leading UK (‘Russell Group') Universities, including delivery of international collaborative research projects.
  • Decades of service on public and professional committees.
  • Extensive record of academic publication and conference contributions.

Current portfolio

  • Founder and Chief Executive • Heritage Innovation
  • Chief Executive • Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust
  • Chair of the Board of Trustees • Black Country Living Museum
  • Trustee • Size of Wales | Maint Cymru

  

  • Chair • Historic Environment Partnership • Brecon Beacons National Park
  • Chair • Urban Archaeology Community • European Association of Archaeologists
  • Collections and Learning Committee • Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
  • Planning, Landscape and Conservation Group • Pontcysyllte World Heritage Site
  • Visiting Lecturer • School of Architecture and Design • Birmingham City University 
  • Editorial Board • Historic Environment: Policy and Practice

Qualifications and accreditations

  • FSA (Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
  • MCIfA (Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists)
  • PhD (University of York)
  • MA + BSc (University of Sheffield)

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Dr Paul Belford

cultural heritage • archaeology • landscape • environment

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