Charlotte Dryden is the CEO of the award winning Oh Yeah Music Centre in Belfast.

Charlotte has been involved in the Northern Irish music community for over twenty years. She has a background in leadership, talent development, music and festival programming, venues, event management, music media and journalism.

Charlotte has initiated several of the key programmes at Oh Yeah including the Scratch My Progress talent development scheme and Women’s Work, a unique ground-breaking initiative for Belfast celebrating women in music.

She chaired the committee set up by Belfast City Council which led to the successful bid for Belfast to become a UNESCO City of Music in 2021.