Since 2007, Dame Caroline Michel has been both the CEO of literary and talent agency Peters Fraser and Dunlop (PFD) and has served as Chair and previously Trustee of Hay Literary festival. She is also Chair of the BFI Trust, a Fellow of the RSA and Vice President of the London Library and Trustee of Historic Royal Palaces. She has served on boards as varied as the BFI, Somerset House, Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year and the Harpers’ Bazaar Short Story Competition. She has been a member of the Booker Prize Advisory Committee and the Chairman’s Circle, Southbank Centre. She has been a particular champion of libraries and librarians, serving as a panel expert for Library Services at DCMS.