Is an entrepreneur, philanthropist writer and broadcaster with a distinguished record of support for the arts and literature. In 1992, he founded the Forward Prizes for Poetry and in 1994, National Poetry Day. Since September 2015, he has been chairman of the Board of Trustees at Somerset House. For many years he was a member of the Arts Council and Chairman of its Lottery Committee. He is currently Chairman of StreetSmart, and Forward Thinking a charity promoting a more inclusive peace process in the Middle East. He is also a trustee of DocSociety, The Forward Arts Foundation and Grenfell United. Sieghart has published many books and is a regular broadcaster. His most recent books are The Poetry Pharmacy, published Sept 2017 by Penguin and 100 Prized Poems – 25 years of the Forward Books published by Forward in association with Faber & Faber 2016. He chaired and authored An Independent Review of E-Lending in Public Libraries in England published by Department of Culture, Media and Sport, 2013 and was subsequently commissioned to report on Public Library services in England. The ‘Independent Library report for England’ was published by DCMS in Dec 2014.