Speaker biography
Euan Wilmshurst
Senior Independent Director and Vice Chair, Play England
Euan Wilmshurst is the Founder and Principal of KW Strategy, working globally across education, philanthropy and social impact with a strong focus on the early years. His career spans more than thirty years in senior roles at organisations including IBM, Pearson and the LEGO Foundation, where he led global advocacy and helped position Learning through Play within education transformation. He now advises foundations and NGOs such as HundrED, Street Child, Indaba Foundation, Education.org and the Roger Federer Foundation, and serves on the boards of STiR Education, Home-Start UK and Stitlo Education.
Euan brings deep expertise in governance, partnerships and systems leadership, alongside a long-standing commitment to early childhood, play and equitable approaches to learning and development.