Our Chairman
Tom Bewick is the main architect of the UK’s sectoral skills policy reform, initiated in 2001, when he was appointed by the Minister for Adult Skills to lead the team responsible for setting up a ‘stronger, smaller network’ of Sector Skills Councils. His career has spanned the public, private and voluntary sectors.
In 2004, at the age of 34, Tom was appointed the Chief Executive of Creative & Cultural Skills, a Sector Skills Council he co-founded with Tony Hall, the Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House. He led a high profile board and organisation that served the workforce needs and industrial sectors of advertising, crafts, cultural heritage, design, music, performing, literary and visual arts.
Tom’s passion is about helping industry, education and governments work more effectively together to shape a global workforce with relevant skills fit for today and tomorrow . He has travelled the world extensively speaking at major economic conferences, writes published articles, and is in demand as a strategic consultant in the UK and abroad.
Tom was praised by the UK’s Prime Minister in early 2010 for his contribution to the creative economy and for establishing the first National Skills Academy for the creative industries. He was until March 2010, a board member of the Alliance of Sector Skills Councils, before becoming INSSO’s independent Chairman at its inception.