Co-founder and former director of the Creative Cities Convention, Ruth is MD of Under The Moon Ltd, a media consultancy specialising in levelling the industry playing field for people from all backgrounds and advising on the strategic development of the film and TV sector outside London. 

She was previously head of documentaries at Granada Television, creative director of documentaries at the BBC, head of factual at Tiger Aspect Productions, founder of Real Life Productions and Advisory Chair of the Edinburgh International TV Festival. She is an IPC trained print journalist and a former radio and television reporter.

Ruth is also co-founder (with the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage) of the National Poetry Centre, which will be the nation’s first dedicated national cultural centre for poetry.