Lucy Pearson is Director of Education at The Football Association.
A former two-time England Women’s Cricketer of the Year (2000 and 2003), she played over 75 games for her country opening the bowling, before injury forced her to retire in 2005. In 2003, she became only the second English woman to take 11 wickets against Australia in over 70 years, with figures of 58-21-107-11.
Alongside her cricket, Lucy had a 22-year career in teaching and school leadership culminating in her appointment as the first female Head of Cheadle Hulme School in 2010.
In 2017, she was appointed to the England and Wales Cricket Board as a non-executive Director where she oversaw the Women’s High-Performance Committee as part of Cricket’s Performance Governance structure and was involved in the development of the South Asian Engagement, Disability and Youth Cricket Strategies. She stood down from the Board earlier this year after 6 years of service.
She took up her current role with The FA in August 2018, seeing it as an opportunity to connect and affect her four passions: learning, young people, inclusion and the power of sport to positively influence society.
