Communications Manager
Billy is Creative PEC’s Communications Manager. He was previously Stakeholder Relations Officer at Nesta, supporting the organisation to develop, nurture and exploit its stakeholder relationships, particularly in relation to opinion formers, businesses and political audiences, to grow Nesta’s influence.
Prior to Nesta, Billy worked for the organisation formerly known as the Big Lottery Fund (now the National Lottery Community Fund).
He has a wide range of interests across politics and policy and has previously worked on reports on social media and young people’s mental health, preventative approaches to babies’ health and how we can use ideas around citizenship to build socially integrated communities.
Billy also runs a community football club, called Terrible Football, which organises free park football games for people of all abilities, in cities around the world. Think of it as the ParkRun for casual footballers. They have just started a new group in Taiwan!
Billy is also really into old ruins and other ancient stuff, he is also a dungeon master (DM) for a party of DnD adventurers.
Core Team
Giorgio Fazio
Research Director of Creative PEC and Chair of Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business Schoo…
Alice Kent
Head of Communications (job-share)
Makena Guantai Day
Executive Assistant
Duncan Todd
Finance and Administration Manager
Bernard Hay
Head of Policy
Lilli Geissendorfer
Deputy Director
Billy Beckett
Communications Manager
Simon Budgen
Head of Operations
Tom Cahill-Jones
Research Network Manager
Alejandro Ramirez-Guerra
Research Associate at Newcastle University Business School
Anna Zabow
Head of Communications (job-share)
Nik Gunn
Policy Adviser
Rodrigo Cavalcante Michel
Research Associate (policy)
Emily Hopkins
Policy Advisor
Nataliya Nikolova
UK Administration & Partnerships Manager (Creative UK)
Hasan Bakhshi MBE
Director