Will Saunders

Creative Head, CoSTAR National Lab

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Speaker Biography

Professor Will Saunders is Creative Head for the CoSTAR National Lab and a professor of Creative Industries at Royal Holloway University. He has over 30 years experience working across the UK’s Screen and Performance sectors 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, launching the BBC’s innovation platform Taster in partnership with BBC R&D and forging commercial content partnerships with YouTube and Facebook. As an independent consultant in 2018 he worked with DCMS leading a workstream, public consultation exercise & co-authored the “Culture Is Digital” report. 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

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