Chair
Dame Christine Gilbert CBE
Dame Christine Gilbert DBE was the Head of Ofsted, also known as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills between October 2006 and 30 June 2011.
Naomi Eisenstadt CB
Meet our in-house team.
Naomi is currently a Non-Executive Board Member on the DfE Board and the DHSC Board. She also Chairs the NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board.
After an early career working in nurseries and in the voluntary sector, Naomi joined the civil service as the first Director of Sure Start. After Sure Start, she became Director of the Social Exclusion Task Force. Since leaving the civil service, Naomi has served as Poverty Advisor to Scotland’s First Minister, published two books and served on a number of charity boards.
She has had honorary research fellowships at Columbia University, University of Oxford, and the London School of Economics and is currently a trustee at the Financial Fairness Trust.
Naomi Eisenstadt CB
Naomi is currently a Non-Executive Board Member on the DfE Board and the DHSC Board. She also Chairs the NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board.
Lucy Heller
Lucy is Chief Executive of Ark, an education charity.
Professor Sir Kevan Collins
Kevan is a non-executive board member at the Department of Education and adviser on school standards to the Secretary of State.
Hanneke Smits
Hanneke was most recently Senior Executive Vice President and Chair of BNY Investments, and a member of BNY’s Executive Committee.
Sonia Thompson
Sonia Thompson is the Headteacher at St Matthew’s C.E. Primary School and the Director of St Matthew’s Research School in Nechells Birmingham.
Sarah Breeden
Sarah Breeden is Deputy Governor for Financial Stability at the Bank of England. She is a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Financial Policy Committee, Prudential Regulation Committee and the Bank’s Court of Directors.
Graham Elton MBE
Graham is a Partner at Bain & Company where he ran the Private Equity practice in EMEA from 2005 to mid-2018 and is now Chair. He has 17 years of experience on the firm’s Investment Committee and was also a leader in the Media practice.
Zoe Lewis CBE
Zoe became Middlesbrough College’s first female Principal in 2013 and has since developed the college substantially in skills priority areas such as engineering, green energy, construction, health and digital sectors.
Richard Donner
Richard is a member of our Finance, Fundraising and Audit Committee.