Bill Lucas

Bill Lucas is an award‑winning researcher with an expertise in creativity. He has a passion to reform the education system injecting more artistic and practical work into schools. A best‑selling author with more than 40 books to his name, Bill is in demand across the world as a speaker and strategist. Earlier in his career Bill was chair of Pegasus Theatre in Oxford for which, with support from Philip Pullman, he oversaw a major refurbishment. For the last five years he has advised Arts Council England on their Creativity Collaboratives initiative supporting schools across England.

Bill is passionate about the power of lifelong learning and its role in transforming the lives of all people, wherever they live and from whatever background. He has lived in Winchester for more than thirty years and his youngest son was a regular performer at Theatre Royal Winchester.

An experienced trustee, Bill is currently a director of the global not for profit organisation Skills Builder and Chair of The English Project and the Portsmouth and Winchester Diocesan Board of Education.