Kate Baxter

Creative Director, Founder, Producer

Kate Baxter is award winning creative director, innovator and serial entrepreneur focusing on human-centred inventions at the intersection of culture and technology. With 25+ productions under her belt since Five Fifty Five's founding, Baxter's other start-ups all provide a platform for under-served communities such as The Children’s Board, One Degree and most recently, Hey Bulldog.

Kate’s DNA stems from her work across continents, communities and cultures to engineer solutions to urgent issues by combining storytelling and technology. She delivered human-behaviour change innovation, clean tech and environmental policy for the UN and multiple governments (Director of US-CHINA EcoPartnership), Lightsource-BP (Head of Strategy), Ellipsis Health (Consultant), and more. Kate is currently progressing patents in Human Experience (HX) Design and Technology.

Working with Chief Raoni Metuktire to tell his story

Supporting Chief Raoni Metuktire and the set up of the UK Parliamentary Amazon Commission

Boasting 50+ content creators across 5 continents speaking 30+ languages amongst them, Kate designed Five Fifty Five as an incubator to pair lived experience with expertise to give a more accurate and multi-perspective view to audiences.

Five Fifty Five was launched when Kate co-wrote and co-directed her first film, Whirlpool, with Elizabeth Dixon, which qualified for the 2019 Academy Award, winning ‘Best Short Film’ and other awards across 30+ festivals, including a RIFA at the BAFTA. Kate has created, sold and financed several projects since.