Tom Bewick

Tom Bewick is the founding Chief Executive of Creative and Cultural Skills: the sector skills council for advertising, crafts, cultural heritage, design, music and the Arts. (2004-)

Tom has spent over 15 years working at national and regional level in the education and skills sector. In the 1990s, he was a policy advisor to the Training & Enterprise Councils' National Council before setting up, with Dave Simmonds and Mike Stewart, the Centre for Social Inclusion (now, Inclusion). Between 1997-1999, he was the Labour Party's as national officer responsible for education and employment policy, working closely with new Ministers and Members of Parliament. In 1999, he was appointed Director of Policy & Communications by the National Training Organisations' National Council, before being appointed by the Minister for Adult Skills, John Healey MP, in 2001 to draw up and implement Sector Skills Council policy. After that, in 2003, he moved to the Learning & Skills Council, Thames Gateway, where he led the first ever Skills Audit of the area.

Tom is a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, a traveling England cricket fan and a recent student of Graeme Lloyd's music academy where he learnt how to DJ and produce dance music. Tom is a graduate of the University of Bath (BSc. Hons.) and Ljubljana Unviersity, Slovenia (MSc.) where he studied European employment and training policies.