Adrian Ellis became Executive Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center on October 1, 2007. Adrian comes to the not-for-profit arts organization at a pivotal time in its 21-year history: he had recently completed a major project with Jazz at Lincoln Center's Board and senior management, creating a new strategic plan for Jazz at Lincoln Center with his company, AEA Consulting, a company that specializes in strategic, operational and facilities planning for the cultural sector, which he founded in 1990. Between 1986 and 1990, Adrian was Executive Director of The Conran Foundation. Between 1981 and 1986, he was a civil servant in the UK Treasury and the Cabinet Office and from 1980 to 1982 was a College Lecturer in Politics at University College, Oxford. He has lived in New York since 1998.