Miki Lentin

Miki Lentin is a senior cultural consultant with over twenty years of experience. Over the past five years he has established his own independent consultancy practice in culture, heritage and the creative industries as well as working for Cultural Associates Oxford.

Miki’s background is in communications and public relations. Until 2019 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. Prior to that he worked in-house in public relations for a range of private sector clients.

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.

Since 2019, Miki has worked on a range of projects and clients. They include audience development strategies for Royal Museums Greenwich, East Anglian Film Archive and Highgate Cemetery, NLHF business and audience planning for St Mary le Strand, the Welsh Jewish Cultural Centre and The Annunciation Marble Arch, creative industry training and development for the British Council in Egypt, ASEAN, Turkey and Central Asia, strategic planning for the Houses of Parliament heritage collections, Manchester Literature Festival and Brighton & Hove Council, museum and gallery development for the Goodwood Art Foundation, Walsall Council, the Cyfarthfa Foundation and Kensington and Chelsea Council and community engagement for Newham Council’s Borough of Culture Bid 2025.

Miki is also a trained facilitator and has led workshops on cultural leadership and policy development internationally online and in person for a range of organisations from INTO (International National Trust Organisations), the British Council, Buckinghamshire Council and others. He is also a faculty member of Oxford Cultural Leaders where he runs workshops on entrepreneurship and risk.

Miki brings a broad range of experience to his innovative and entrepreneurial thinking. A former café owner in an arts centre, he is also a Trustee of the climate hope charity Threads in the Ground, a Governor of Highgate Wood Secondary School, and a writing mentor for Freedom from Torture’s Write to Life Programme. Miki is also a published writer.