ELIA and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts will present the Leadership Symposium 2007 in Hong Kong in December 2007. The aims of this event are to engage senior level managers and decision-makers in key themes and current debates in cultural management and leadership in arts education, and to confront issues in ways that promote new perspectives, solutions and strategic alliances. Previous ELIA Leadership Symposia have been held in Los Angeles (2003) and London (2005). Registration brochures will soon be sent out to all ELIA members. The programme will combine keynote presentations and facilitated group sessions with cultural events highlighting all that Hong Kong has to offer. Participation will be limited to approximately 80 leaders selected to ensure a high level of interaction, representation, focus and intimacy. Participants are strategic decision-makers and leaders from a representative set of diverse arts and design institutions throughout the world, and collectively demonstrate: a range of professional, cultural and institutional backgrounds, active engagement in key issues and debates affecting higher arts education and cultural management, and a willingness to contribute to and lead debates, share experience and practices and carry forward initiatives that emerge from the symposium.