Creative HeadProfessor Will Saunders MBE

Professor Will Saunders MBE is Creative Head for the CoSTAR National Lab  and a professor of Creative Industries at Royal Holloway University. At CoSTAR will jointly chairs the Network's piloting and prototyping programme and leads research projects exploring the creative potential of new and emerging technologies. Will has over 30 years experience working across the UK’s Creative Industries as a writer, producer, & executive producer. As Creative Director, Digital BBC Studios he ran Digital Development and Production for the UK’s leading media company. As an independent consultant in 2018 he worked with DCMS leading a workstream, public consultation exercise & co-authored the “Culture Is Digital” report for culture secretary Matt Hancock M.P. As a programme maker he has won awards working with; Graham Norton, Flight of The Conchords, Comic Relief and Lee Mack. In 2024 he was awarded an MBE for services to the Creative Industries