Eleanor O’Keeffe is the founder-director of 5×15, a cultural events company based in London that operates in New York, Paris, Milan and Sydney. Before moving to London, she was co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival from 2006-08 as well as co-director of the Shakespeare and Company Festival in Paris from 2004-06. In 2007, she was one of the founders of the Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest). She was a judge of the DSC Literature Prize in 2012 and she sits on the Board of contemporary dance company, Rambert.