Lucy Winskell is, by any standards, one of the best connected people in the North East.
For the last 12 years – and a few more weeks – she has been pro vice chancellor of Northumbria University, one of the few non-academics in senior positions at the institution and very much its main link to the business community.
She is also chair of the North East LEP – the body tasked with developing the region’s economy – and was, until 2020, chair of the North East England Chamber of Commerce, the region’s largest business organisation. She is chair of trustees as well at Newcastle’s Live Theatre and a trustee at both the International Centre for Life and the Community Foundation, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland. Among many other roles, she was High Sheriff of Tyne and Wear in 2015-2016.
