EAF (Edinburgh Art Festival) is thrilled to announce the 6 new Trustees that are joining our Board this summer, lending their skills and expertise to the festival to keep our work as ambitious and sustainable as it can be. Joining us will be finanical and ESG advisor Lucy Zhang, writer and professor Maria Fusco, incoming Finance Director for the Hampstead Theatre Stephen Crampton-Hayward, cultural historian Micah Mackay, curator and cultural leader Tamsin Dillon, and solicitor and legal officer, Cathy Asante.
Lucy Zhang
Lucy Zhang is an Associate Director in Financial Services Advisory based in Edinburgh, with extensive experience in asset management operations, risk assurance, and internal audit. She has built a strong track record delivering independent assurance engagements across key regulatory frameworks, and more recently in ESG reporting.
Lucy began her career at PwC, where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant, leading international teams and managing complex client relationships. She is now with BDO, where she leads client engagements, develops new business opportunities, and advises asset managers on operational, IT, and regulatory risk. She is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese and brings a multicultural perspective to her work.
Outside of work, Lucy has a passion for houseplants and coffee, and enjoys creating her own indoor urban jungle—having grown her collection from 13 to nearly 50 plants over the past two years. She is also currently practicing the art of latte making at home.
Maria Fusco
Maria Fusco is an award winning working-class writer. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, she now lives and works in Scotland, where she is Professor Interdisciplinary Writing at the University of Dundee and Director of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities. Her work is protean in nature, characterised by critical attention to intersectional socio-economic circumstances through an experimental lens. Working across performance and theoretical writing, she is the author of eight books and four largescale performances, her writing is translated into ten languages. Her most recent projects are History of the Present, an avantgarde opera-film about the legacies of defensive architecture in Belfast, which is co-directed with artist Margaret Salmon with new music by Annea Lockwood, and Who does not envy with us is against us, a book of lyric essays about working-class-ness as method (both 2023).
Stephen Crampton-Hayward
With a degree in Finance and Economics his career has focused on charity financial administration and governance. He currently offers strategic finance and governance consultancy support through his company, Bluejay Enterprises Ltd, to a range of smaller charities including Pilotlight, The Orchard Project, Hope for the Young and Kangaroos. In 2025 Stephen acted as Interim CEO of Paintings in Hospitals. Prior to starting his consultancy career, he was Director of Finance & Corporate Services for World Skills UK, having previously worked primarily in arts charities through his over 30 career, including the Whitechapel Gallery, the Serpentine Gallery, The Lyric Theatre Hammersmith and the Central School of Ballet. In September 2026 Stephen will be taking up the role of Finance Director for the Hampstead Theatre.
In a voluntary capacity Stephen is also currently Deputy Chair and Treasurer of the National AIDS Trust (NAT), was Deputy Chair and Treasurer of Paintings in Hospitals until November 2024 and was Chair of Board of Trustees of Discover Story Centre in East London until December 2021.
Micah Mackay
Dr Micah A. Mackay is a South African-British arts development professional, cultural historian, and writer. Her research and work focuses on living heritage, the history of patronage, and equitable approaches to funding. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford, where she was a Leverhulme and Balliol Dervorguilla Doctoral Scholar and is currently Development Manager for An Tobar and Mull Theatre, a multi-arts centre based on the Isle of Mull. She is also an alumna of the National Arts Fundraising School and the Cultural Business Development Programme. Micah’s research has been published by the Journal of the Early English Society and Cambridge University Press and has also featured on BBC Radio 3 and HistoryHit. She is currently working on a book exploring a new direction for the arts in the face of a ‘cultural dystopia’.
Tamsin Dillon
Tamsin is a curator, cultural leader and leadership coach. She is the founder and Director of Art in Public, established in 2020. With a primary focus on curating ambitious temporary and permanent artworks and projects with artists in the public realm and the built environment, she has worked across a range of contexts from museums and galleries to public places including railway networks, public squares, parks and hospitals. She has shaped important programs such as Art on the Underground (London UK) where she was the Director 2002-2014 and has led and worked alongside artists, curators, and professionals across the non-profit, commercial, and cultural sectors. She curated Waterfronts for England’s Creative Coast (2021): seven major temporary public artworks on the coast of South East England (Turner Contemporary, Margate and six regional arts organizations). She was the lead curator for 1418NOW, projects developed in response to the centenary of WW1 (London & UK). In 21/22 she produced a strategy for 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica to develop socially-engaged art projects across the City. In 22/23 she worked with Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria, New York City as its Executive Director. She currently sits on the Board of City as Living Laboratory in New York.
Cathy Asante
Cathy is a qualified solicitor and legal officer at the Scottish Human Rights Commission. Cathy is a qualified solicitor and legal officer at the Scottish Human Rights Commission. She leads the work of the Commission in mental health and capacity, disability rights, places of detention and understanding of human rights based approaches.
Prior to joining the Commission, Cathy practised in the field of mental health and incapacity law since qualifying as a solicitor in 2008. She previously worked at Legal Services Agency, a law centre, where she worked as a solicitor in the Mental Health Legal Representation Project. For a number of years, she acted as Curator ad litem to the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland, a role designed to represent the interests of patients who do not have capacity to instruct a solicitor.