Lizzie Crump MBE

UK STRATEGIC LEAD, WHAT NEXT?
CONSORTIUM PARTNER, FREELANCE : FUTURES

Lizzie Crump is the UK Strategic Lead at What Next?; a national cultural movement which brings people together to debate and shape the future of the arts and culture in the UK. She is also the Co-Director of the Cultural Learning Alliance (CLA), a collective voice working to ensure that all children and young people have meaningful access to culture, and is a Visiting Engagement Fellow at Kings College London.

Lizzie is passionate about creating new ways of working and thinking; about partnership, conversation and collaboration. Lizzie has worked for a local authority, for Arts Council England, as Cultural Advisor to Partnerships for Schools (now part of the Department of Education), as an associate with the Innovation Unit and as a freelance consultant.

She was the 2011/12 Clore Leadership Learning Fellow, and is a governor of Leyton Sixth Form College. During the pandemic of 2021, she received an MBE for services to the arts.