Deborah Bull, King’s Cultural Partners Director

King's College London is pleased to announce that Deborah Bull has accepted the newly created role of Director, King's Cultural Partners, and will join King's in March 2012. Deborah Bull brings to King's extensive experience of, and significant success within, the arts. Following a twenty-year career with The Royal Ballet in which she rose through the ranks to perform leading roles across the repertoire, she joined the executive team of the Royal Opera House to establish ROH2, a programme of artist and art form development initiatives with innovation, creativity and partnership at its heart. Since 2008, she has been Creative Director of the Royal Opera House, responsible for ROH Collections, ROH2 and a wide range of pan-organisational activity including the BP Summer Big Screens, Deloitte Ignite, audience engagement strategies and 2012 Olympic programming. Deborah will continue to work closely with the Royal Opera House and LOCOG during the first months of her appointment to deliver a number of Cultural Olympiad activities, including The Olympic Journey . In addition to her work at the Royal Opera House, Deborah has served as a Governor of both the South Bank Centre and the BBC and as a member of Arts Council England. She has written and presented several series for BBC television and radio, including the award-winning The Dancer's Body , which explored dance from a scientific perspective.