Ted Hodgkinson is Head of Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre where he oversees the year-round literature programme, London Literature Festival and the National Poetry Library. Formerly online editor at Granta magazine and literature programmer at the British Council he is a current trustee of English PEN. He has judged numerous literary awards including the 2019 Orwell Prize for political writing and in 2020 chaired the International Booker Prize.