Assessment of personal data： Joseph Seelig << Back Joseph Seelig’s career in arts management spans more than thirty years. He has been at various times a venue manager, artists’ agent, festival director, opera producer and arts consultant. He founded the London International Mime Festival of which he is co-director. He is currently International Programme Consultant for Hong Kong Arts Festival, International Adviser for the New Zealand Arts Council, an Honorary Advisor for Fringe Shanghai and a Board director of HQ Theatres. Besides, he has been a member of advisory panels for the Arts Council, a judge for the Total Theatre Awards in Edinburgh, a member of the jury at the Mimos Festival in Perigueux, France, a consultant to the Perth and Adelaide festivals in Australia, and Artistic Director of the New Zealand International Festival from 1994 to 2000. In 2008 he was appointed Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic.