Karin Paynter has had a 30-year career in the jewellery, silversmithing and creative sectors, spanning design, production, communications and research, and was part of the management team that established the Goldsmiths’ Centre. She holds various non-executive roles, including trustee of Bishopsland Educational Trust and member of the Goldsmiths’ Company Communications & Marketing Committee and the UK JSAC Roundtable.

Trained as a silversmith Medway and in design at the Royal College of Art, she became a Liveryman of the Goldsmiths’ Company in 2018, is an Honorary Member of Contemporary British Silversmiths and a Fellow of the RSA.

Her career spans creative communications, design and production, research, strategy and cultural initiatives and she is director of ERA5050, a high-profile campaign for equality on British stage and screen, credited with improving representation of women across UK media.