Libby Savill

Lisbeth (Libby) Savill joined the Board of Southbank Centre in 2020 and was invited to become its Deputy Chair in 2025. She has had a long and successful career as a media and entertainment lawyer until retiring at the end of 2023 from the partnership of Latham & Watkins, where she established its London-based media, entertainment and sports practice. Prior to that she was a partner at the law firms O’Melveny & Myers and Olswang. In her practice, she was known for providing strategic advice and commercial solutions to her clients.

Savill has also been actively involved in the creative industries for many years. Among other roles, she served as the deputy chair of the British Film Institute from 2011 to 2019, and as a board member of Film London from 2003 to 2010. In that role, she helped devise Film London’s Jarman Award, chairing its first Jury. She was an invited member of Lord Chris Smith’s Film Policy Review panel and of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs experts’ panel regarding the design and implementation of the first UK creative sector tax reliefs, which remain a cornerstone of funding British creative content. She received the Women in Film and Television Business Award in 2010 and was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s 2019 New Year’s Honours List for services to film and television.

Savill currently sits as an elected member of BAFTA’s Membership Council, and as the independent director of John Le Carré Company Limited. She is passionate about the arts, particularly the visual arts, theatre, dance and, of course, the movies.