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CfBT Education Trust has 11 Trustees who make up the Board
of Trustees. They are legally responsible for all of CfBT’s affairs
and are ultimately responsible for the performance of the
organisation and the quality of service it offers clients and
beneficiaries.
In practice they delegate this responsibility to the Operations Committee which oversees the
day-to-day management of CfBT.
There are two other key committees, which the Trustees also
delegate responsibility to:
- Education
Committee, which oversees the
educational impact of the Trust’s work. It also decides on the
funding for CfBT’s research and development projects;
- Audit Committee, which
provides an independent oversight of the CfBT’s systems of internal
control and financial reporting. It also oversees risk management
and associated areas such as insurance.
Meet the Trustees
John Harwood DL, Chairman of Board of Trustees
John Harwood was appointed Chairman of Trustees in November
2004. He had helped to establish the Learning and Skills Council
(LSC) and was its first chief executive from 2000 until he retired
in late 2003. Previously he had been the chief executive of two
local authorities (Oxfordshire County Council and Lewisham Borough)
and had worked in the ILEA, the GLC and Hammersmith and Fulham.
Among his other interests, he is a senior associate fellow of
Warwick University Business School and a member of the Court of
Oxford Brookes University. From time to time he takes on other
roles; in 2004 he was the interim chief executive of Cumbria County
Council and until March 2008 he was the chief executive of the Food
Standards Agency.
Graham Colls
Graham Colls is Chief Executive of Magna Housing Group, a
not-for-profit housing organisation working mostly in Dorset,
Somerset and Devon. He was previously Chief Executive of Two
Castles Housing Association. He holds degrees from the Universities
of Oxford and Durham, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of
Housing and a school governor.
Marion Headicar
Marion Headicar became chief executive of Oxford City Council in
2001, having been appointed to overhaul the poorly performing
authority. In 2004 she moved to Portsmouth City Council, a unitary
authority, with a brief for organisational change. Previously she
had lectured in urban regeneration and planning at Leeds
Metropolitan University before joining the Department of
Environment in 1988, where she worked on a range of initiatives:
sponsoring the urban development corporations, establishing a new
environmental regeneration team and setting up the Environment Task
Force for the New Deal. She is currently an independent management
consultant, specialising in strategic and organisational
planning.
Sara Hodson, Chair of the Nominations Committee
Sara is an experienced management developer, facilitator and
leadership coach. She is Governor of the University
College for the Creative Arts and formerly of the Surrey
institute of Art & Design University College and is also on the
Nominations Committee of UCCA where, earlier this year, she
supported the Clerk to the Board in a board skills audit
and recruitment for three new governors.
Previously Sara worked as Head of HR for Investment Banking
at Citibank and she has been a non-executive director of an
NHS Trust. She has been a lead consultant on a leadership
development programme for the senior executive team of the
government's e-Delivery team, based within the Cabinet Office
as well as on a similar project within HM Revenue and Customs.
Sara continues to be a lead instructor on Citigroup's global
leadership programmes, working with groups across Europe,
Africa and the USA.
Sue Hunt, Chair of the Audit Committee
Sue is a Chartered Accountant who spent 18 years with global
accountancy firm KPMG, initially in the audit practice and latterly
as a director in advisory providing advice to clients on the
financial and commercial aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
During that time she worked with a range of clients from the public
and private sectors, both in the UK and internationally. She was
also instrumental in establishing a multi-disciplinary healthcare
group at KPMG which specialised in providing advice to NHS Trusts
preparing for Foundation Trust status, a new governance structure
for acute and mental health hospitals. Sue is currently a Non
Executive Director for NHS Direct which provides expert health
advice, information and reassurance over the telephone, website and
through digital TV services nationally and 24/7.
Stuart Laing
Stuart Laing joined CfBT Board of Trustees as Appointed Trustee
– International in October 2008. He was also elected
Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in October 2008. A
career diplomat since 1972, with service mainly in the Middle East
and North Africa, but also in Western and Central Europe, he was
appointed British High Commissioner in Brunei, then Ambassador in
Oman, and most recently Ambassador in Kuwait. He has served on the
Boards of British Schools in Cairo and Riyadh, and is on the Board
of the Trustees of the British University of Kuwait, which plans to
open in 2009.
Margaret Platts
Margaret Platts, a Cumbrian by birth, has spent most of her
teaching career working in inner city schools in Bradford, West
Yorkshire. She took up her first post in Yorkshire after
working for a year in Switzerland. She retired from the
Headship of a large girls’ comprehensive school in Summer
2009.
Margaret was awarded the M.B.E. in 2000 for services to education
and the community. She was Convenor for Bradford Secondary
Heads and chaired the Schools’ Forum. She is a former Chair
of Governors of a local Primary School.
Her interests are in travel, gardening, sport (especially tennis)
and books.
Sir Jim Rose, Chairman of the Education Committee
Jim was formerly Her Majesty's Inspector (HMI) and Director of
Inspection for the Office for Standards in Education
(Ofsted). He retired from Ofsted in July 1999 and has
since acted as a consultant to the Department for Children, Schools
and Families (DSCF) on nursery and primary education, and workforce
training. At the request of the Secretary of State, he
chaired the 1999 Independent Scrutiny of the National Assessment
Tests for Primary Schools. He is a member of the Board of the
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) and chairs the QCA
0-14 Advisory Group.
Jim has advised several overseas governments on school inspection
and has considerable international experience of school educational
systems. He was invited by the Secretary of State to
lead the Independent Review of the Teaching on Early Reading (2006)
and published an independent review of the primary curriculum in
April 2009.
Dr Tim Walsh
Dr Tim Walsh is Vice-President for Corporate Affairs for Pitney
Bowes Inc responsible for industry, government and regulatory
affairs in international markets (2003-to date). In this
role, Tim works with EU institutions, government departments and
post offices on rules, pricing and arrangements governing access to
and payment for postal services worldwide. Dr Walsh
previously held a number of senior positions within Royal Mail
including as head of commercial strategy and as director of
international affairs.
Tim is an Economics graduate from Exeter University and took his
Ph.D at the University of Bath on the aspect of labour market
economics. He is author of various academic papers on postal
reform, infrastructure services and economic development.
Tim is a former member of the Governing Body of his local school
(2000-06) and is currently a member of the board of St Mary’s
University College, Twickenham (2006 – to date). Tim is married
with two children.
John Webb, Vice Chairman
John Webb spent some 20 years in education, management and then
educational publishing with Oxford University Press both in the UK
and overseas. He has been associated with CfBT since its
foundation. In 1984 he moved into management consultancy
specialising in organisational development work for the education
sector before broadening his work into the health sector, arts
bodies, not-for-profit organisations and the United Nations. John
retired from Price Waterhouse Coopers in 2000 and continues to work
with educational and arts bodies on a part-time basis. He is
chairman of governors of his local school in Somerset and also of
the Federation of 17 maintained schools in the area.
Philip Wood
Philip Wood has had a career in business and finance spanning
more than 30 years. He is a qualified chartered accountant
and spent 14 years in Price Waterhouse where he was a partner
specialising in audit and advisory work. He joined Reuters in
1990 where he stayed for 14 years in a number of senior management
roles including Deputy Group Finance Director and Managing
Director, Business Development. In 2004 he left Reuters to
join a renewable energy company as CEO. He raised £13m and
floated the company on the AIM market. He left the company in
2006.
Philip continues to be a non-executive director of TIBCO Software
Inc, a west coast USA software infrastructure company with a market
capitalisation of approximately $1.3bn. He joined the
company’s Board when it was a start up and currently chairs the
Compensation Committee. Philip has been a governor of a local
voluntary aided primary school in Sevenoaks for 19 years. He
was also a member of the Schools Examination and Assessment
Committee. He is married with 2 children who are both at
university.
Operations Committee
The Operations Committee has delegated responsibility for the
day-to-day management of CfBT and is made up of eight executive
and five non-executive members.
Executive Members
Richard Birkett – Financial &
Commercial Director
Andy Breckon - Lincolnshire School
Improvement Services Director
Tim Emmett – Development Director
Jonathan Greenwood - International
Operations Director
Tony McAleavy – Education Director
Neil McIntosh – Chief Executive
Joanne Smithson – UK Services
Director
Wendy Woodcock - Schools & Nurseries
Director
Non-Executive Members
John Harwood – Chairman
Sue Hunt
Stuart Laing
Sir Jim Rose - Chair of the Education Committee
Philip Wood