Martin Green CBE

Martin Green is Director of Eurovision Song Contest, a new role overseeing the world’s biggest entertainment show. He is also Chair of IKON Gallery, Birmingham and Visiting Professor, Events at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Green’s track record as an executive producer of major events includes the ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Hull UK City of Culture 2017, the Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 and the BAFTA-winning Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Liverpool in 2023 on behalf of Ukraine.

Green, who was made CBE in the 2017 UK Queen’s New Year Honours List, was previously Vice President of global live events at the entertainment company TAIT.

Launched in 1956 as a live broadcasting experiment with seven nations competing, the ESC now attracts contestants from dozens of countries across the EBU membership, a TV audience in the hundreds of millions and global online reach in the billions.