Clive Russell originally trained as a musician at the University of Surrey, specialising in the clarinet and studying in London with Colin Bradbury. After graduating, he chose the commercial sector and spent six years with a London music publishing house. He extended his business and management experience when he started his own company, specialising in the supply of pianos, orchestral and educational instruments, and selling printed and recorded music throughout the world. After 13 years of rapid growth, he sold the business as a going concern, having established it as one of the leading classical music specialists in the country.

Moving into the public sector, he took a position in the arts funding system at South East Arts Board, and was soon appointed to the senior management team as Director of Resources, a position he held for five years. During the reorganisation of the arts funding system in 2002, he managed the merger of South East Arts Board with the Arts Council of England and the other Regional Arts Boards, and helped to develop many of the national systems and funding schemes for the newly enlarged organisation.

He joined the Guildhall School as a Director in 2003, since when he has taken a leading role in developing a whole range of business systems, and managed the School's new relationship with the Higher Education Funding Council and with the rest of the HE sector. From 2008 he has overall responsibility for managing the project to provide new world-class performance and teaching facilities on the Milton Court site.

He continues to play regularly as principal clarinettist of a wind orchestra in Kent.

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