Daiwa Musubi Lecture 2026 with Rebecca Salter

The Daiwa Ichiban Lectures were this year renamed the Daiwa Musubi Lectures to bring them under the umbrella of the ‘Musubi’ programme developed by the British Embassy in Tokyo to create a lasting legacy from the 2025 Osaka Expo. On 18 February 2026, our Trustee Rebecca Salter, President of the Royal Academy of Arts, was joined in conversation by Mami Kataoka, Director of the Mori Art Museum, for a discussion on ‘Arts and Leadership in Uncertain Times’. After discovering the extraordinary coincidence that they are both daughters of clergymen, the two speakers went on to a wide-ranging discussion of the demands placed on leaders in the arts world, in times which are not just uncertain but when the arts face rising political pressures.