Charles Knevitt is Director of the RIBA Trust, which manages the cultural assets and delivers the public outreach programme of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The cultural assets include four million items in the British Architectural Library, at 66 Portland Place, London W1, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London SW7; and the outreach programme includes the annual RIBA Stirling Prize (broadcast live on Channel Four); the Royal Gold Medal; the RIBA International Book Awards; and the RIBA International Conference.

As part of this programme, he is the UK Director of Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture|, the first major exhibition on the architect's work in a generation, in Liverpool, European Capital of Culture (2008); and London (2009).

Before he joined the RIBA in 2004, he was an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster, including Architecture Correspondent of The Sunday Telegraph and The Times. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Community Architecture (Penguin, 1987, with Nick Wates) and Shelter (Polymath, 1994; US edition by Pomegranate, 1996). He has also written and presented television series for Anglia, Granada, Thames and Channel Four.

He is Chairman of the Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain| and was recently chosen by Design Week as one of the 'Hot 50 people making a difference in design' |