David brings over 20 years of experience as a strategy consultant and leader in arts, culture, and the creative economy for nonprofits, higher education institutions, philanthropy, and businesses globally. As the Deputy Director at Creative West, he guides advocacy and public policy programs; leads external relations and fundraising; and spearheads consulting services to organizations throughout a region of 16 states and jurisdictions and nationally. Since joining Creative West, he has co-developed Creative West’s Pacific Initiative; co-designed Creative West’s Arts and the Rural West gathering; co-directed the development of the state of Washington’s Creative Economy Strategic Plan; launched and maintained the Creative Vitality™ Summit, a global conference on the creative economy; authored the Creative Economies and Economic Recovery report in partnership with the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies; established the Western Arts Advocacy Network; developed relief, resilience, and other special grantmaking programs for artists and organizations in the West and the Pacific; joined the faculty of the National Leaders of Color Fellowship; and secured multi-million dollar private and public investment for Creative West’s programs. David also serves as the Co-Chair of the Creative States Coalition, a national coalition of citizen advocacy groups and their partners. Holland previously served as associate director of the Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston. Other prior roles include leadership and senior management positions with VCU da Vinci Center for Innovation, VCU School of the Arts, ART 180, the Latin Ballet of Virginia, Arts & Business, and the UK innovation foundation Nesta. Holland also served as a senior consultant with BOP Consulting, a global research and consulting practice for culture and the creative economy, and worked as campaigns officer for the UK’s National Campaign for the Arts. For more than 13 years, he has served as an independent management consultant for clients from Salzburg Global Seminar and the Inter-American Development Bank to United States Artists and Think of Us, a research and design lab on child welfare. He is currently on the faculty of the MA in Arts Administration program at Goucher College. He has served as a panelist and on steering committees for the National Endowment for the Arts, Colorado Creative Industries, and the Oregon Arts Commission among others. He is a Salzburg Global Fellow, Evan Carroll Commager Fellow, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Holland holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and Asian studies from Amherst College and masters degrees in international studies and diplomacy and the history of art from the University of London, SOAS.