CHAIR OF TRUSTEES – ROLE DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION

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English PEN is recruiting for a new Chair of Trustees to support us in our mission to protect and promote the freedom to write and the freedom to read in the UK and around the world.

English PEN is one of the world’s oldest human rights organisations, championing the freedom to write and the freedom to read around the world. We are the founding centre of PEN International, a worldwide writers’ association with 130 centres in more than 90 countries.

With the support of our members – a community of writers, readers, and activists – we exist to defend and campaign on behalf of writers, literary professionals, journalists, and artists who are unjustly persecuted, harassed, imprisoned, and even murdered in violation of thei...