Tom O'Leary

Educator/Teacher, Event planner, Parent, Public servant

Tom is currently Director of Public Engagement for Historic Royal Palaces which includes the Tower of London and Hampton Court, Kensington and Kew Palaces. He was previously Director of Learning for the Science Museum Group and Head of Public Engagement and Learning at the UK Parliament. Tom was the organiser and curator for TEDxHousesofParliament which ran three times from 2012-2014. After this Tom organised and curated TEDxLondon for 5 events between 2015-2017. He is now on a sabbatical from running TEDx events! Tom is a fellow of the RSA, advises Westminster Abbey and has served on the main board of trustees for Culture 24 and the RAF Museum.

creating rich and powerful learning experiences for people

Enjoyed TED from a distance - online - for a while, then attended a TED Salon in London in 2011. This was followed by attending TED Global in 2011. I subsequently attended various TEDx events in London, which inspired me to create and run TEDxHousesofParliament. This ran three times from 2012 to 2015 during which time I also worked with the TEDxChange programme. I then took on the licence for TEDxLondon and ran 5 events from 2015-2017.