Rick Hall is Director of Programmes for Ignite!, a not-for-profit organisation promoting creativity in learning that grew out a programme at the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). Since its launch into independence in October 2006, Ignite! has managed programmes of research for Trades Union Congress (TUC), Campaign for Learning, University of the Arts, as well as supporting or delivering programmes for NESTA, the Protégé project at University of the Arts, My Space etc for the Stephen Lawrence Centre and London South Bank University (LSBU), and a £2m programme of creative approaches to the learning and teaching of STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) in the East Midlands (Ignition*). A former teacher, actor, writer and director notably in the arts for young people, Rick Hall was Programme Manager in the Fellowship team at NESTA from 2001 to 2006. He has worked for the Arts Council, the National Lottery Charities Board and the Millennium Festival. In May 2008, he was appointed an Honorary Fellowship at the School of Education, University of Nottingham.

Rick Hall is participating in the Engaging students in global issues: the responsibility of education to develop the ethical student session.