Ekow Eshun is a writer, curator and broadcaster. He is the author of books including The Strangers, longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the Jhalak Prize, and the memoir Black Gold of the Sun, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. Hailed by the Guardian as ‘a cultural polymath’, he was the first Black editor of a major magazine in the UK and went on to become the first Black director of a leading British arts institution. He has created documentaries for BBC TV and radio and his writing appears in publications including the Guardian, The New York Times and Financial Times.

Described by Vogue as ‘the most inspired – and inspiring – curator in Britain’, he has curated critically acclaimed exhibitions internationally and is Chairman of the Fourth Plinth, overseeing Britain’s foremost public art programme.