Paul Collard is Chief Executive of Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) an international foundation dedicated to unlocking the creativity of young people in and out of formal education. CCE was established to design and manage the delivery of the Creative Partnerships (CP) programme in England from 2002-11. The success and impact of the programme attracted considerable international attention and CCE now supports the delivery of programmes modelled on CP across a wide range of European countries including Norway, Lithuania, Holland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary. Beyond Europe, CCE is in the 3rd year of a CP programme in Pakistan, which now has 95 schools enrolled and is supporting a major creative schools initiative in Thailand, which has 400 schools enrolled. It has also recently launched CP programmes in Chile and Western Australia. Within the United Kingdom, CCE i advising the Arts Council of Wales and the Welsh Government on its £20 million Creative Learning through the Arts Plan, is Project Lead for the new Creative Schools Programme in Ireland and in Scotland, it is piloting its Art of Learning programme. CCE is also an expert adviser to the OECD on measuring creativity in the classroom. 

Before becoming chief executive of CCE, Paul ran a number of high profile and high impact projects which were designed to use the arts, culture and creativity to improve local and regional economies while addressing deep seated social issues. These included Visual Arts UK, which took place in the North East of England in 1996, and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, a partnership between Yale university and the City of New Haven, in Connecticut, USA.