Adam has 14 years experience of arts and cultural management.He is based in London and works as a consultant on a number of international and national cultural projects, focusing on community arts, interculturalism and international cultural exchange and collaborations.He is currently Associate Producer for the Swedish organisation Intercult and the project Black/North SEAS which will create cross-cultural artistic collaborations between artists on the coasts of the North Sea and the Black Sea in 2007-2008.In 2006 he became an Associate of the hub, a UK "think and do" tank which develops new thinking and practice in the arts.

He is the author of World Music in England, published by Arts Council England in 2005 and the report Multiple Narratives for the SouthWestMuseums, Libraries and Archives Council.His other clients include on-going consultancies with major UK music festivals such as The Green Man and The Big Chill.

He was for four years General Manager of Arts Worldwide, a leading independent festival producer focusing on non-Western European countries, and especially Muslim cultures with significant diasporas in the UK (including in 1997 the Yemen Festival and in 1999 the Bangladesh Festival).

He left in 2000 to join the British Council where he was Assistant Director for Resources and Planning at Visiting Arts, the national agency which promotes the flow of foreign arts and artists into the United Kingdom. His first task was to make Visiting Arts legally independent of the British Council and he incorporated the new organisation, piloted its charitable status and implemented its internal financial and corporate procedures in 2001. His international project work with Visiting Arts included the Taiwan-UK Artists Fellowship Programme in 2004 (on behalf of Arts Council England), a UK Curators Delegation to China in 2002, and the report International Arts in England mapping and positioning the Arts Council England in preparation for the launch of its international arts strategy in 2005.With Visiting Arts he developed of the international and diasporic artists database culturebase.net (www.culturebase.net) with a Culture 2000 grant (he remains part of the project’s management and development group), and Visiting Arts’ Cultural Profiles (www.culturalprofiles.org.uk), a knowledge management project presenting in-depth cultural directories of several countries which involved fundraising, writing, editing, and the technical development and implementation of a content management system. He raised funds for this project from sources as diverse as the European Cultural Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the British Council and the Scottish Executive.

He has worked on several community arts and regeneration projects (SRB, ERDF/ESF funded) in London and received a Millennium Award as a community entrepreneur in 2000. In 1990s, he co-founded The Pride Trust, organising body of the annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Event in London (at that time the largest free outdoor music festival in Europe with an attendance of 300,000 in 1997) and served as its chair between 1994-1996. He continues to be involved in a number of cross-sectoral arts projects and is an Associate of The Comedy School, an organisation which teaches stand-up comedy technique in prisons and detention centres and to those at risk of offending.He has a BA Hons. in English Literature, Philosophy and Art History from Kingston University.