EDUCATOR - Key Persons
Brett's first degree was in Environmental Science during which he undertook placements on the world's longest coastal management plan in Belize with Coral Cay Conservation. After graduating, he undertook a PGCE in Science with Environmental Science from the University of Bath. He was planning to transfer to the British Army full time but decided instead to stay on in the Reserves. Brett holds dual commissions as a Reservist and Cadet Force Officer with extensive experience in training and development.
Brett taught across a range of subject areas in schools, including science, geography, and sport. His passion for learning was evident and he created opportunities for varied learning both in and out of classroom to engage learners. His leadership was recognised early when he became a Head of Year and then Acting Head of Department. When he was appointed to a challenging school in an area of multiple deprivation, Brett increased academic achievement by 50% in GCSE A-C attainment. He successfully led the school to become a Specialist Sports College, in addition to leading a School Sports Partnership across Christchurch and the Purbecks. He also led a successful National Lottery bid to build new facilities to increase health and educational opportunities. Other work included the creation of a Combined Cadet Force prior to the national initiative, and a Christchurch-wide DofE programme with over 400 students annually completing the award across three secondary schools.
Brett was an active senior leader, engaging the community and changing social perceptions of the school. He successfully completed his National Professional Qualification in Headship, in addition to a PG Dip in Institutional & Professional Development.
In 2008, Brett decided to train in Pre-Hospital Care and Emergency Medicine. He funded his studies by setting up and running a successful training business. Further postgraduate training in Remote Global Healthcare at Peninsula Medical School reinforced and enhanced his expertise in remote medical care training. Still practicing, he also delivers educational training to a range of organisations in life saving procedures both in the UK and worldwide.
With a natural passion for and professional recognition in science, the environment and health, he is a STEM ambassador. He is a passionate advocate for youth development as a DoE Leader, Assessor and Approved Activity Provider. Always seeking new experiences and adventure, he has been an expedition leader in a variety of locations around the world. He has recently set up an expedition business to develop confidence, skills, and opportunities with a sustainable ethos.
Brett has been involved in charitable work for numerous years and is still regularly active. He is a national Trustee with Wooden Spoon as well the Chair of the Dorset, Wilts and Hampshire Region. He also fundraises for Epilepsy Research UK and Save the Rhino completing many endurance events including being a World Record Holder for the longest ever rugby match - over 25hrs - and running across the driest desert on earth dressed as a rhinoceros.
Brett joined the Worshipful Company of Educators in 2019 and became a Liveryman in 2020. He was appointed to the Board of Trustees in 2021.
Brian was born and grew up in Northern Ireland. In 1875 his great grandfather was invited by the then Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, The Right Reverend Cecil Alexander (husband of Mrs Frances Alexander, the celebrated hymn writer) to come to St Columb's Cathedral in Derry / Londonderry from Wakefield Cathedral to be the principal tenor of the cathedral choir. Over the years, there have been many notable singers in the family and over a hundred years later, that musical drive still continues as Brian (alongside teaching) has enjoyed singing with many of the leading UK opera companies.
Brian gained his B.A. in English from the New University of Ulster in 1987 and counts himself very fortunate to have had Seamus Heaney as his poetry tutor. After six years in industry - working for Burberrys, The Historic Royal Palaces Agency and The Royal Opera House - the other family trait of education called, and Brian undertook his PGCE in 1993. Since then, he has worked across both the state and independent sectors where he has been a teacher, deputy head (Pastoral), head of faculty and most recently senior teacher. In his twenty-eight years of teaching, Brian has seen considerable change within education, but one of the jobs that has given him greatest pleasure has been the opportunity to increase bursary provision for able students at the City of London School for Girls. The school was founded in 188, using a bequest left by William Ward, a merchant of Brixton. William Ward believed that girls should be given a broad and liberal education with an emphasis on scholarship, so it is very pleasing to be able to continue with that mission. Brian is also a governor of a primary school in Dagenham.
Brian is a passionate advocate of the Kids' Lit Quiz - a prestigious international competition that champions knowledge about literature for 10 to 14-year-olds. He holds the unique distinction of twice having won the World Champion title (in 2010 and 2014) with his school teams. Alongside reading, Brian is a keen skier, cook and traveller and sometime in the future he'd like to finish his book on the works of William Blake. Brian joined the Worshipful Company of Educators in 2018 and became a Liveryman in 2019. He was appointed to the Board of Trustees in 2021
Job Titles:
- Adviser to the Prince 's Charities and Chair of Teach First ( Election Dinner )
Dr Somerville's academic career as a social scientist in UK universities, led to senior leadership positions, including that of executive dean of faculty and Pro-Vice Chancellor. She contributed to national HE developments in modular structures and credit transfer systems, in competency-based curriculum and in the commercialisation of academic expertise in research and CPD. She was a HE quality auditor for the Higher Education Quality Council.
Past Master Dr Nicholas Carey, who had served as our Honorary Treasurer for many years and who helped prepare the financial and other documentation in connection with the application for the Grant of Livery status, retired at the end of the financial year to be succeeded by Past Master Raymond Clark, OBE.
Susan has a degree in English and Linguistics from Nottingham University, a PGCE at the University of Durham, and a PhD from the Institute of Education/UCL.
She joined the teaching profession as an English teacher in a comprehensive school before becoming Director of English in a sixth form college where she was promoted to the Senior Leadership Team. Susan's interests expanded to the big picture of educational policy. A one-year secondment as policy advisor at the DoE, led to a permanent position as the policy lead for post-14 teaching and learning, responsible for a multi-million pounds budget; 12 curriculum teams; reporting to Ministers and liaison with a range of educationalists including Ofsted, Teacher Unions, Sector Skills Councils and Examination Boards.
In 2008, she became Head of Programmes at the Specialist Schools and Academy Trust, responsible for national school improvement programmes. She led the headteacher group of regional representatives which liaised with the DfE sponsor team and external evaluators on the policy design, implementation and evaluation. In 2012 Susan returned to the front line joining Wakefield City Academy's multi-academy trust where she was responsible for leadership training and teaching and learning across the trust's schools.
On retiring in 2016, Susan became an Associate of the Institute of Education, UCL. She splits her time between travelling, conducting research, writing and contributing to Masters courses in the London Centre for Leadership in Learning. She is a member of the panel of judges for the Educators' Trust Awards.
Job Titles:
- the Honorary Foundation Clerk
The Honorary Foundation Clerk, Keith Lawrey, revised the Company's Handbook, containing the Ordinances and Regulations, following the Grant of the Letters Patent. This was printed and made available but, in future, it is likely that the Ordinances and Regulations will be published in e-format and included on the Company's website.
Job Titles:
- Master of the Worshipful Company of Educators in 2018 / 2019 and Continues to Be Chairman of Livery Schools Link
Lis Goodwin was the Master of the Worshipful Company of Educators in 2018/2019 and continues to be Chairman of Livery Schools Link.
She is married to David and has two children Martin, a lawyer, and Caroline who works in finance in Norway. There are four grandsons.
She lives in Theydon Bois, Epping Forest and is past Chairman of the Arts Society West Essex and past Chairman of the Epping Eppingen twinning association.
She graduated in Mathematics and following an MSc in Statistics at LSE she joined the Government Statistical Service. Her subsequent career was in education starting as a mathematics teacher at an international school and then she became a lecturer in Statistics at City of London Polytechnic now part of London Metropolitan University. During this time she gained her PhD.
She was Head of Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing at North London Polytechnic and was involved with the national validation bodies of CNAA and BTEC.
Her next post was an HMI on the team responsible for the quality of provision in Mathematics and Computing in polytechnics and FE colleges in England .
In 1992 she became Chief Education Executive at the Institute of Actuaries and Faculty of Actuaries. This was the first joint post between the two bodies as a common exam system was being developed for introduction in 1994. She oversaw 3 changes to the qualification system during her time there until she left in 2005.
She also worked with the International Actuarial Association on a common standard for actuarial education in all member countries and advised the actuarial associations in India and South Africa on the development of their examination systems..
She was for several years a Council member and then Treasurer of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and helped them gain government funding in 2006 to increase the number of mathematics graduates in England and Wales.
Her spare time interests are reading, art, theatre, walking and travelling.
Martha was born and brought up in London but moved north to study for a BA (Hons) in Government and Law at the University of Manchester. She returned to London to The College of Law and joined Nabarro Nathanson (as was) as a trainee solicitor. Martha qualified in 2005 specialising in charity and education law. She later worked for leading law firms Stone King and Veale Wasbrough Vizards where she advised schools, universities, student unions and grant making charities. The introduction of the Academies Act 2010 saw Martha become of the country's leading lawyers advising on the conversion to academy status and the formation of multi academy trusts.
Martha remains a practising solicitor but works for a US based school management company with responsibility for schools in the UK, Switzerland, Uganda and Dubai. Martha has been involved in the opening of two free schools in the UK, including The Gatwick School in Crawley, an all-through school. She is also on the board of International School of Berne and of Academy Middle East, a US curriculum online school. She is company secretary of Aurora Academies Trust which has seven schools across Sussex and Surrey.
Martha credits her interest in education to her mother who was a school governor and teaching assistant. Her sister has also followed a career path into education and works for the University of Greenwich.
Martha has a young family and little spare time but is a fourth-generation supporter of Millwall FC where she is a season ticket holder.
Martha was admitted to the Educators in 2018, becoming a Liveryman in 2021. She was appointed as Honorary Secretary of The Educators' Trust Fund in 2020.
Martin obtained a First Class Degree in Zoology and PhD in soil ecology, both from the University of Reading. He taught biological sciences at the Polytechnic of Central London (PCL, now the University of Westminster) for 17 years. With a research interest in the ecology of cities, he was concerned at the challenge teachers face teaching ecology in city schools and wrote, ‘Urban ecology a Teacher's Resource Book', published by Cambridge University Press in 1984. At PCL he was also engaged in research on the relationship between the environment and health. He had sabbatical leave to undertake an MSc at King's College London in Human and Applied Physiology.
Initially providing some teaching in physiology to physiotherapists at the St Mary's and Middlesex hospitals and students of the British School of Osteopathy (BSO, now University College of Osteopathy) he was seconded part-time to the latter to initiate much-needed research into osteopathy. Impressed with the osteopathic model of health care, he became full-time at the BSO, simultaneously student, research co-ordinator and lecturer in physiology. After graduating, he set up the first osteopathic clinic for the homeless in the Social Care Unit of St Martin-in-the-Fields. He was a member of the Research Council for Complementary Medicine and Council of the Osteopathic Association of Great Britain.
He became Principal and Chief Executive of the BSO, which following relocation was in two million pounds debt. With sound financial management and supported by professional fund-raisers with whom he worked closely, the debt was repaid in five years. During his term of office, the college gained government funding and the degree became the first Master of Osteopathy. He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Bedfordshire.
Martin has lectured in institutions and delivered numerous papers at conferences in the UK and abroad and has published numerous articles and papers on the physiological basis of osteopathic intervention and the history of osteopathy. He has written two books on the latter subject. He is a Court Assistant to the Company, sits on the Membership Committee and is Secretary to the Engagement Committee
In 2008, Mr David Taylor succeeded Dr Warren again - this time as Master - and Dr Gaskell retired as Treasurer, to be succeeded by Dr Carey. Mr Taylor's year was one which included some notable innovations, as well as a continuation of practices introduced during his predecessors' years. The Preacher at the Annual Service was the Rev Mark Aitken, Headmaster of St Lawrence College, Ramsgate.
The Franklin Lecture, kindly sponsored by Pearsons, was presented by Dr Anthony Seldon (Master of Wellington College, author and historian) under the title of ‘How well-being enhances educational standards', and this was followed by a most enjoyable white tie Banquet at Fishmongers Hall. Christmas was celebrated by the now traditional shared carol service and by a Freedom Friendly party (‘A Dickens of a Christmas'), comprising supper and a very entertaining medley of readings and songs arranged by the Appeal Group. Mr Taylor had chosen ‘Standards' as his theme for the Master's seminars which were very well supported and thoroughly enjoyed, as indeed were a number of social meetings.
Spring saw the introduction of ‘The Master's Music' in which a number of talented Freemen and friends and relations performed including a newly-convened Guild Choir. This was so popular that future Masters were alerted to the idea of providing something similar in their year of office. Yet another very successful Public Speaking Contest was organised by Mrs Pam Taylor (in her guise this year as Mistress Educator). There followed the first Master's Weekend when fifteen Freemen, partners and friends travelled with the Master and Mistress to the South of France to enjoy some of its cultural and gastronomic delights - another very successful occasion which it is hoped will set a precedent for future Master's Weekends.
John was born and went to school in Oxford. He read Classics at Exeter College, Oxford. His career has been in IT from 1962 initially with the Ford Motor Company where he did pioneering work on computer systems in finance and manufacturing, Plessey (where he was Head of Management Services) and British Leyland (from the early 1970s). In 1987, he led an employee buyout of ISTEL Ltd, which he had established as a subsidiary of British Leyland. In 1989, the company was acquired by AT&T. He was the Executive Chairman of AT&T ISTEL and an officer of AT&T until April 1993.
In November 1993, he joined RM (a British educational computing company) as a non-executive director and in October 1994 became Chairman. He has been a non-executive director of a number of other companies including Halifax plc and Synstar plc (of which he is also Chairman).
John was President of the British Computer Society (1993-4) and the Computing Services and Software Association (1995-6). He was President of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS), a UK professional association. He has been a member of the Council of University of Warwick, Chairman of the Advisory Board, and an honorary visiting professor at the Warwick Business School and Warwick Manufacturing Group. He was Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Council at the University of Warwick from 2002 to 2011.
In the Queen's Birthday Honours 1998 Leighfield was appointed as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. In 2006 Leighfield was awarded the Mountbatten Medal which is awarded annually for an outstanding contribution to the promotion of electronics or information technology and their application.
Currently he is Chairman of Governors of the WMG Academy for Young Engineers (a UTC) and a member of the Development Committee of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
He is a founder member and Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists.
He has an MA from Oxford, and Honorary Doctorates from the University of Central England in Birmingham (DUniv), from De Montford University (DTech), from Wolverhampton University (DTech) and from the University of Warwick (DLL). He is a Fellow of the RSA, RGS, CMI, IET and BCS.
Martin Cross succeeded Dr Briggs as Master in June 2012 and served until early July 2013. A principal focus of attention during the year was to ensure that everything was in place to petition for Livery status. This was duly achieved when the Company's petition and its supporting documents were submitted to the Court of Aldermen in June 2013. The petition was supported by some fifty other Companies, which was a most pleasing and encouraging demonstration of approval by the Livery world for what the Company had been doing.
Peter Williams was born and went to school in Oxford; he graduated in English from the University of Exeter. His earlier career was in the printing industry and the academic administration of the Universities of Surrey and Leicester. Between 1984 and 1990 he was the Deputy Secretary of the British Academy from where he moved to specialize in quality assurance in higher education. In 1990 Peter was appointed as Director of the CVCP Academic Audit Unit (AAU), one of the first higher education quality assurance agencies. In 1992 he became Director of the Quality Assurance Group of the Higher Education Quality Council (HEQC), which took over the responsibilities of the AAU. In 1997 he became the Director of Institutional Review in the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), rising to the office of Chief Executive of QAA in 2001 and retiring in 2009.
Between 2005 and 2008 he was President of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) and was one of the principal authors of the original European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. His aim was to make quality assurance a vital tool for professional academics and a means of underpinning and promoting the strengths and reputation of higher education in the UK and the European Higher Education Area.
Following his retirement in 2009, Peter took on a number of voluntary roles, including Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors and Chair of the Audit Committee of Cardiff Metropolitan University (2009-16), Chair of the Academic Committee and Trustee at Richmond, the American University in London (2012-19), and Chair of the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education (of which he is now President), 2012-18. He was also a member of the Education Honours Committee (2011-17) and the Treasurer of Little Malvern Priory. Current roles include Chair of The Norfolk Archives and Heritage Development Foundation (NORAH) and churchwarden at Honing and Crostwight, Norfolk, where he now lives.
A liveryman of the City of London, he was Master of the Worshipful Company of Educators in 2014-2015 and is now a Trustee of the Educators' Trust.
Peter holds three honorary doctorates and was appointed CBE in 2009 in recognition of his services to higher education.
Peter Williams wa s born and went to school in Oxford; he graduated in English from the University of Exeter. From March 2002 until his retirement in September 2009 he was Chief Executive of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), having spent the previous 12 years creating and working in QAA and its two predecessor organisations. Between 1984 and 1990 he was the Deputy Secretary of the British Academy. His earlier career was in the printing industry and the administrations of the Universities of Surrey and Leicester; in the latter of these he served as Secretary to the Medical School. During his time at QAA, he worked to make quality assurance a vital tool for professional academics and a means of underpinning and promoting the strengths and reputation of higher education in the UK.
In addition to his work in the UK, Peter has made presentations and participated in many international quality assurance projects in Europe, South America, the USA, Canada, China, India, the Middle East, Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. Between 2005 and 2008 he was President of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) and was one of the principal authors of the original European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher Education.
After his retirement in 2009, Peter took on a number of voluntary roles, including Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors and Chair of the Audit Committee of Cardiff Metropolitan University, Chair of the Academic Committee and Trustee at Richmond, the American University in London, and Chair of the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education (BAC). He also served as a member of the Education Honours Committee and the Treasurer of Little Malvern Priory.
Peter was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's Birthday honours list in 2009 in recognition of his services to higher education. He holds honorary Doctorates of Laws from the University of Leicester and the former Higher Education Training and Awards Council of Ireland (HETAC), an honorary PhD from the University of Gloucestershire, is a Fellow of the University of Worcester, and an honorary Fellow of both Cardiff Metropolitan University and the College of Teachers. He is now a Trustee of the Educators' Trust, Chair of the Norfolk Archives and Heritage Development Foundation (NORAH) and churchwarden of Honing with Crostwight in Norfolk. He now works, when time permits, as an independent higher education consultant.
Peter is married to Fiona, who has a Masters Degree in Paleo-oceanography and they have two sons, Edmund and Hugo. They live in rural-east Norfolk, surrounded by books and fields.
Nick has had a life-time career in the City with Schroders, a British multinational asset management company working in financial markets and ultimately managing portfolios for clients in the charity sector whilst working for its subsidiary, Cazenove Capital. He is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute for Securities and Investment.
Nick is passionate about livery companies and their ancient rights and traditions. He was admitted to the Drapers' Company in 1982 and was elected Master for the 2014/15 company year. The Drapers' Company has close links with Queen Mary, University of London, and they co-sponsor the Drapers' Academy on Harold Hill, Romford.
He is currently Chairman of Governors of the Sir William Boreman's Foundation, a charity originating from the will of this gentleman dated 1684, in which he bequeathed to the Drapers' Company a school he founded in Greenwich. Whilst the school no longer exists, the Foundation continues to give small educational grants to students and charities located in this borough and its neighbour, Lewisham.
Nick is also on the Court of the newly established Guild of Investment Managers.
Nick is also active in charitable activities raising funds for the Alzheimer's Society and the Royal British Legion by participating in sporting events - he has run nine marathons and has cycled in the past to Paris three times!
Job Titles:
- Master Educator 2019 - 2020
Pam studied Drama and Education at the Rose Bruford College, where she qualified as a teacher, and then completed a BA Honours in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury. She had a long teaching career, and worked in both the maintained and independent sectors, teaching English Language and Literature, Drama and Theatre Arts in both single-sex and mixed secondary schools. She was Head of English at Bromley High School (Girls' Day School Trust) for seventeen years.
• Increasingly, she became involved in the world of assessment for national school examinations, becoming a Principal Examiner, Chief Examiner and ultimately Chair of English Examiners at Pearson Edexcel, a post she still holds. Her examining expertise led to opportunities to train English teachers in the UK and she was also involved in ‘Poetry Live' sessions in London and in radio master classes on English Literature. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Assessors and an English Expert for Ofqual.
• Since leaving teaching she has worked as examiner, trainer, writer, scrutineer and consultant. Her experience of running courses for teachers and students is extensive, both in the UK and internationally, such as in Europe, Australia, China, Africa, the Middle East, India, the USA and Sri Lanka. She has written a number of books on the teaching of English Language and Literature, as well as having contributed to a large number of practical teaching resources which have been used to help students and teachers prepare for their examination courses.
• She is married to David, Past Master Educator (2008-2009), and has two children, Alex and Penelope, and two grandchildren, Annabel and Benjamin. She lives in Sevenoaks in Kent.
After graduating from Keele University, Joint Honours in Chemistry and Education, Paul joined the teaching profession, mainly in central-city schools in Manchester and London. He became interested in the creative potential of cross-curriculum courses and developed and taught a number of innovative programmes, both in-school and as part of national projects.
Later, as a full-time curriculum developer and assessor, he contributed to major developments including A Level Science & Society (as project worker for the Nuffield Curriculum Centre and as senior examiner) and the Extended Project Qualification (as the senior examiner in the pilot and development phases with QCA and a major examining organisation). He became one of the first Chartered Educational Assessors (CEA) with a particular interest in appropriate coursework.
A committed Quaker, Paul took an early career break for several years as an educational peace project worker travelling throughout the British Isles. He subsequently joined a number of Quaker-related trustee boards, including several years with responsibility for large grant awards to Peace and Social responsibility projects. He has also served as a board member and trustee of the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors.
Paul has taken part in a number of clinical research trials and is co-founder of the patient-led ‘Patient & Public Involvement' Organisation TrialsConnect based at the William Harvey Clinical Research Centre. He is currently the honorary administrative secretary and during the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020, he has been the patient representative on the group organising coronavirus research in the Barts Health Trust and Queen Mary, University of London.
Paul's wife, Lisa, works for an American university programme in London and he enjoys welcoming both students and visiting staff to the city, where he was born and bred, as ‘faculty spouse'. Additional ‘spare time' activities include riding on Wimbledon Common and, of course, service as an active Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Educators.
Job Titles:
- Master
- Professor
- Professor Raymond P Clark OBE Was Installed As Master in 2010 and His Guest Speaker at the Installation Dinner Was the Earl of Selborne KBE, FRS Chairman of the Foundation for Science and Technology
Professor Raymond P Clark OBE was installed as Master in 2010 and his Guest Speaker at the Installation Dinner was The Earl of Selborne KBE, FRS Chairman of the Foundation for Science and Technology.
Dr Peter Briggs OBE succeeded Professor Clark as Master in June 2011. Conscious that the Company would be able to petition for Livery status within the following two years, the Master and Wardens were anxious to ensure that appropriate contacts and links were being made on a timely basis.
Richard Evans began in the charity sector after University, working for Voluntary Service Overseas in Southern Thailand. On his return, he started in education, teaching politics and history in schools and colleges, later becoming Director of Client Services at Woolwich College and helping the College become an associate college of the University of Greenwich.
He was a pioneer of PSHE - Personal, Social & Health Education - in both schools and colleges. He gained his MA (Political Education) from the University of London, Institute of Education. After several years in senior executive management in education, Richard moved into the charity sector, working as Deputy to the CEO & Development Director for the UK & International HIV/AIDS charity ACET International. He subsequently moved in to Executive Search. Richard is co-founder of Marylebone Executive Search, based in the City of London.
Richard has extensive company board experience. He is also a Trustee serving on the boards of the New Era Foundation, the Ramphal Institute and the Council for Education in the Commonwealth. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the English-Speaking Union and the Institute of Directors. He is a Freeman of the City of London and was a member of the Lord Mayor's Charity Committee 2013/14. He has previously been a Governor of several schools, a Churchwarden and a Parliamentary Candidate in two General Elections.
He lives in Dulwich with his wife Sarah Jane who is a Master of Wine. They have two grown-up daughters
Roy Blackwell started his working life as a teacher, after which he became Education Officer for a Local Authority before spending ten years in the civil service which led to him travelling around Europe negotiating bi-lateral and multi-lateral treaties for HM Government.
Between 1999 and 2019, Roy was Clerk to the United Westminster Schools/Grey Coat Hospital Foundation, an ancient (1594) charity which has strong links with Westminster Abbey. He was also Clerk to the governing bodies of the schools which make up the Foundation, an unusual mixture of independent and state schools, the latter being inner city academies.
In January 2020, he was appointed CEO of the Challenger Multi Academy Trust which has primary and secondary schools in Bedford and Essex.
He is currently Chair of the VOCES8 Foundation a charity dedicated to music education; a Director of the City of London's Academy Trust; Vice Chair of the City of London Academy Trust; and Chair of Governors of Highgate Hill Academy. He was also an inaugural member of the City of London's Education Board; chaired the Independent Schools Pension Scheme committee and was a board member of the Teachers' Pension Scheme. He is Vice Chair of the Confederation of School Trusts and represented it on the Independent and State School Partnership group. More recently, he joined the board of BrainCanDo which is looking at the development of children's brains and how neurological research can influence teaching and learning.
In July 2013,Sir John Stuttard assumed the reins of Office of Master and was able to announce two months later that the Court of Aldermen had granted Livery status to the Company on10 September so that it then became the one hundred and ninth Worshipful Company. In anticipation of this significant event, the Company had ensured that its first Sponsoring Alderman became the first Master of the new Livery Company. Sir John had also made the Company a beneficiary of his Lord Mayor's Appeal in 2006/7 and thus ensured that it could meet the necessary financial targets required by the City of London for such advancement. The Grant was celebrated at a memorable banquet at Mansion House in February 2014. Immediately prior to this banquet, at a special Court of Aldermen, the Lord Mayor presented the Company with its Letters Patent and, at the banquet, William Hunt, Windsor Herald, presented the new coat of arms of which the design and production had been overseen by Past Master Professor Raymond Clark OBE.
Job Titles:
- Chief Education Adviser, Pearson, Formerly Chief Adviser on Delivery to the Prime Minister
In addition, the Education Committee arranged a number of discussion evenings. Topics included: Student Leadership in Secondary Education; Dispute Resolution in Higher Education; and Innovation in Work-based Learning. The Committee also again organised a discussion evening at which several of the Company's Freemen spoke about particular initiatives in which they were engaged. Freeman Pam Taylor again arranged a Public Speaking Competition at Gresham College involving a number of schools.
The Social Committee held a number of most interesting and enjoyable visits during the year: to the Treasures of the Livery Companies exhibition and the Clockmakers' Museum; Lord's Cricket Ground and Museum; St Paul's Cathedral; the Cutty Sark and National Maritime Museum; the Renaissance Galleries at the V&A; the British Library; Keats' House and Hampstead; and the Carpenters' College and the Olympic site.
Over forty Freemen attended the Master's Weekend in May 2013, which was based in "Old London by the Sea" - Swanage in Dorset, to which many City artefacts were removed during the Nineteenth Century rebuilding. It included visits to Corfe Castle (by steam train), the Jurassic Coast and the deserted village of Tyneham. Dr Alan Chedzoy entertained us with a talk and readings from Dorset's two literary giants, Thomas Hardy and William Barnes.
Job Titles:
- Vice - Chancellor of the University of Leicester
Job Titles:
- Director of Business Development, Cisco
Job Titles:
- Group Director
- Chairman of the DfE 's Expert Panel
Tim Oates, Chair of the DfE's Expert Panel for the National Curriculum Review, Group Director of Assessment Research and Development, Cambridge Assessment