I am currently:
Chair Ormiston Academies Trust. One of the large National Academy Trusts https://www.ormistonacademiestrust.co.uk/
Chair Public Interest News Foundation https://www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/
Co Chair Buckinghamshire Culture https://buckinghamshireculture.org/
Trustee National Secular Society National Secular Society
I am a Humanist Speaker for Schools and a passable potter
In the past I have been
Chair | 2017-20 | Ofsted |
Vice Chancellor | 2011-16 | Kingston University |
Board Member, Deputy Chair Chair | 2012- 17 | OfQual OfQual Standards Group |
Council Member | 2011-16. | St George’s Univ. of London |
Governor, Chair Audit and Risk Committee | 2009-17 | Latymer Upper School |
Team Leader: QABME* | 2003-10 | General Medical Council |
I have been the specialist advisor to two House of Lords Inquiries
I qualified in Medicine, and specialised in Infectious Disease and Epidemiology. I have worked in the Developing World and war zones.
I enjoy learning
Education, Qualifications and Prizes
2019 2018 | CELTA (English Language Teaching) International House/Cambridge MSc in Applied Psychology (BPS Grad Status) Robert Gordon |
2016 | BA Humanities(with Art History) Open University |
2014 | PFHEA (Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Agency) |
2009 | MEd (Open University) |
2002 | FFPH (Fellow, Faculty of Public Health) |
2001 | FRCP (Fellow, Royal College of Physicians) |
1994 | MFPHM (Member, Faculty of Public Health Medicine) Specialist Accreditation: Public Health Medicine |
1991 | MSc, Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
1990 | DM(Oxford), thesis, “Studies on the Circulation during Fever” |
1989 | Specialist Accreditation: General (Internal) Medicine and Communicable Disease |
1982 | MRCP(UK) (Member, Royal College of Physicians) |
1979 | BMBCh, University of Oxford, Radcliffe Infirmary Prize in Medicine |
1976 | BA., Physiological Sciences, University of Oxford |
Honorary Doctorates from:
University of North Carolina, Charlotte NC;
Grand Valley State University, GV, Ill