# Philip Colligan

CEO, Raspberry Pi Foundation. TIME100 AI 2026, Shapers. His Raspberry Pi Foundation launched an AI course for kids two months before ChatGPT; it has since reached about 5 million children. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/philip-colligan/))

- Education: LLB, Law, University of Liverpool, 1997 ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-colligan-cbe-8a218723))
- Career: Raspberry Pi Foundation (Chief Executive Officer, 2015 to now); Nesta (Deputy Chief Executive, 2010–2015); London Borough of Camden (Assistant Chief Executive, 2004–2010); Home Office (Head of Race Equality and Community Cohesion Strategy Team, 1998–2004) ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-colligan-cbe-8a218723), [time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/philip-colligan/), [turing.ac.uk](https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/guest-speakers/philip-colligan))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/philip-colligan/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/philip-colligan

- Trained in law and spent over a decade in UK public service at the Home Office and Camden council before leading a computing charity. ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-colligan-cbe-8a218723))
- His Experience AI lessons have been localized in 40 countries and used by some 50,000 teachers to reach about 5 million kids. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/philip-colligan/))
- Experience AI, built with Google DeepMind, launched two months before ChatGPT came out. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/philip-colligan/))
- The 2024 London IPO of Raspberry Pi, which he helped lead as a director, gave his charity a stake worth about $1 billion. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/philip-colligan/))
- Once ran a Code Club for 20 Year 7 students at Number Ten Downing Street. ([raspberrypi.org](https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/author/philip/))
- Argues that the kids who learn to code "will be the ones who shape the future." ([computerweekly.com](https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366627119/Interview-Philip-Colligan-CEO-Raspberry-Pi-Foundation))