Caroline McCormick is an arts and environment consultant with more than 15 years experience. As Development Director at the Natural History Museum she led the successful campaign to raise £65m to build the Darwin Centre. Between 2005 and 2010 she was the Chief Executive of PEN International. In that time she transformed the organisation, setting up a new world literature festival, Free the Word! and establishing literature based education programmes in more than 70 countries.

As a consultant her clients have included Kevin Spacey’s Old Vic Theatre, the National Theatre and Garsington Opera. She is currently working on her seventh capital campaign.