Baroness Deborah Bull
Non-exec Director, UKRI, Former VP (Communities & National Engagement), KCL, Crossbench Peer, House of Lords
Baroness Bull is Non-executive Director of UK Research & Innovation. She formerly worked at King’s College London as both Vice President, Community and National Engagement, and as Senior Advisory Fellow for Culture. These roles follow a long and successful career in the arts, first as performer and then as creative leader and cultural commentator.
She danced with The Royal Ballet for twenty years before joining the Royal Opera House Executive to devise and implement strategies for developing new art, new artists and new audiences, including its innovative ROH2 programme. She became Creative Director in 2008, taking executive responsibility for ROH Collections and leading on the organisation’s Olympic programming as well as its live relays to Big Screens nationwide. Baroness Bull has been a Speaker since 2016.