Gill Webber

Gill Webber has worked in the culture sector for 35 years in senior roles for high profile organisations spanning galleries, libraries, archives and museums as well as broadcasting and higher education. Most recently she spent nine years as Executive Director of Content and Programmes at Imperial War Museums (IWM) where she created a programming strategy to reach beyond traditional visitors and subjects to a broader and more diverse audience. Expert at developing funded partnerships and translating both popular and challenging subject matter into creative public programming, Gill ensured the museum’s relevance to today’s audiences by introducing current affairs-led digital and on-gallery programming on wars in the news today. She pioneered theatre, broadcast, digital, arts and performance methods to create programming that increased engagement, attracted new audiences and transformed perceptions of IWM.

While at IWM Gill founded the IWM Institute, the museum’s academic research and knowledge exchange hub. Using her understanding of the Higher Education, charity and media sectors she developed funded partnerships, co-creation and co-curation opportunities and projects for the museum. She established the IWM Associates network of leading academics, journalists, NGO and creative practitioners to work pro-bono with the Institute and museum.

From IWM and from her previous senior roles at the BBC World Service, The British Library, RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) and Trustee roles at Leeds Beckett University and the Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust, Gill is expert at developing strategy, partnerships and audiences, communications and marketing, stakeholder relations, community engagement, and programming and research commissioning. She is also a highly effective leader of creative teams.

Gill is an advocate of evaluation and at IWM led the development of a social impact framework to measure the impact of projects and programmes beyond visitor figures.