Miki Lentin is a senior strategic communications and marketing professional with over twenty years of experience across the public and private sectors. Until recently he was Head of Corporate Affairs at the UK’s national library, the British Library, with responsibility for corporate strategy, communications, marketing, content production, public policy and community engagement.
Miki has a keen interest in the role cultural organisations have as neighbours within their cities and communities. This led to his creation of London’s leading innovation district, the ‘Knowledge Quarter’, a visionary concept to transform engagement and partnership by the major culture, research, academic and science institutions in and around King’s Cross, London.
Miki’s also played a key role in developing the Library’s ‘Living Knowledge’ (2015-23) strategy, managing its communication and integration across business areas. Throughout his career, he has led high-impact and creative communications projects including: the Library’s 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta in 2015; broadcast partnerships with BBC4, Discovery and Sky Arts, and major brand marketing campaigns. Within the private sector, he has managed the communications and public relations for consumer brands such as Sony Ericsson, Warner, Minute Maid and the Royal Institution, and sports sponsorship programmes for BP Retail.
Miki brings a broad range of personal experience to his innovative and entrepreneurial thinking. He recently travelled the world with his family, and completed a MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a Trustee of the Reading Agency, an advisor to The Francis Crick Institute’s Living Centre, and a Faculty Member of Oxford Cultural Leaders.
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