Background
Tony Sweeney was born in the North of England, the son of Austin Joseph Sweeney and Anne-Marie Gresham.
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Education
He attended Street Bede"s Grammar School (Bradford, United Kingdom), and the University of Southampton. He has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Physics and Electronics from the University of Southampton.
Career
He is an Australian citizen, now resident in the United Kingdom, who is best known for his ten-year period as director of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the United Kingdom and a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia. After his studies, he spent a year traveling, following the old Hippie trail through Asia.
On his return to the United Kingdom, Sweeney "drifted into publishing".
He acted as commissioning editor in commercial book and journal publishing, initially at the Pergamon Press (Oxford) from 1979 to 1982, and then at Basil Blackwell Publishers (Oxford) from 1982 to 1988. He produced pioneering multimedia open-learning courses for the United Kingdom"s Open College of the Arts, supported by television programs broadcast on Channel 4, from 1988 to 1991.
He was the Deputy Director of the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television (United Kingdom) from 1991 to 2004, and focused on developing the Museum"s brand profile and content strategies. He directed the Museum"s Imaging Frontiers masterplan re-development, which generated record visitor numbers and international critical acclaim.
The Museum is now seen as one of the leading international centres for culture and learning of its kind in the world.
Tony Sweeney was appointed director and Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Accumed International Incorporation) in 2005. Having spent ten years in the role, Sweeney resigned in December 2014 in order to return to his family in Britain.
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