Paul Roberts OBE
Alumni
Paul is Chair of the Board of directors for the Innovation Unit and vice-Chair at Nottingham Contemporary. He is a member of the ABRSM Music Commission and of the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education. Paul produced the government report “Nurturing Creativity in Young People” in 2008 and his recent writing includes joint authorship of “The Virtuous Circle – why creativity and cultural education count.” Paul is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, was awarded an OBE in 2008 for services to Education and the Creative Industries and appointed to the National Council of Arts Council England in December 2017.
A graduate in philosophy and mathematics, a teacher and schools’ inspector, Paul Roberts was Director of Education in Nottingham and subsequently in Haringey leading the Government intervention in Haringey Council. He was a director of Capita Strategic Education Services before joining the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) for local government.
At IDeA he was Director of Strategy and subsequently Managing Director, overseeing the organization’s £50m programmes of work based on knowledge management, peer review and support for local authority elected members.
As author of the joint DfES/DCMS report “Nurturing Creativity in Young People”, Paul was adviser to government ministers on the development of the cultural offer for young people as well as holding board positions with Nottingham Contemporary, Public Services Innovation Laboratory Board at National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), Innovation Unit and Greenwood Trust.
Paul is Chair of the Board of directors for the Innovation Unit and vice-Chair at Nottingham Contemporary. He is a member of the ABRSM Music Commission and of the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education.
Recent writing includes joint authorship of “The Virtuous Circle – why creativity and cultural education count.” Paul is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, was awarded an OBE in 2008 for services to Education and the Creative Industries and appointed to the National Council of Arts Council England in December 2017.
