Trevor Davies worked as Director of Copenhagen International Theatre, before becoming Director of Copenhagen 96-European Cultural Capital for six years, which was to prove to be the largest edition of this programme to date and also regarded as one of the most successful Cultural Capital projects ever. In 2000, Trevor mounted a major presentation of the Copenhagen Harbour in the City which was a focus for massive inward investment. He was a founding board member of the Danish Centre for Culture and Development (1998-2000), and has been awarded a number of national awards from the arts sector, as well as being  honoured by the Queen of Denmark  and being awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Letters by former French Minister of Culture, Jacques Lang.  In 2000 he relocated to England and was Director of The Salisbury Festival (2000-2004) which he successfully developed while maintaining his directorship of CIT.  From 2004 he has been Director of The New Writing Partnership.