About me
Two decades in education
My career began with classroom teaching and department leadership in the UK and moved into senior leadership at two of the world's leading British international schools, followed by a year as Academic Director for a new education group in Vietnam. I now work as an independent adviser to schools and education groups.
Education & career
I was educated at Colfe's School in South East London and then UCL, where I read Economics, before completing a PGCE in Business and Economics Education at the Institute of Education. My teaching career began with roles in the economics and business departments of Coulsdon College and Whitgift School. I moved into middle leadership when I joined Tiffin School as Head of Economics, and my final post in the UK was that of Head of Economics and Business at Trinity School, Croydon.
In August 2017 I transitioned into international education, moving to South Korea and joining NLCS Jeju. There, I served as Head of Sixth Form and IBDP Coordinator before being promoted to Vice Principal (Academic). I later joined the founding Senior Team at NLCS (Singapore) in the same role, and was subsequently appointed Senior Vice Principal. This included deputising for the Principal and chairing various leadership, management and project teams. I also took responsibility for all aspects of the school's academic programme, university and careers guidance, and policy library, as well as the day-to-day running of the Senior School.
For the 2025–26 academic year I worked as Academic Director for Millennia Education in Vietnam, primarily supporting the pre-launch phase of King's College Wimbledon Ho Chi Minh City, a new premium British international school. My work on the project spanned educational strategy and guiding statements, curriculum and staffing models, policy development, and senior staff recruitment and selection. Additionally, I provided advisory input at group level on commercial positioning, expansion planning, and educational programme development.
That was my first year outside a school in nearly two decades. The change of perspective felt more natural than I expected, perhaps because it was overdue, and prompted the decision to move into full-time advisory work.
The bigger picture
Outside work, my interests tend toward things that are well made and built to last: objects that reward close attention and reflect the craft that went into creating them. I am slowly building a collection of mechanical watches, not in pursuit of a single perfect piece, but a curated set in which each has a distinct character and a specific place. The same instinct draws me to fine fountain pens and good paper, and to coffee approached with perhaps more seriousness than is strictly necessary.
Photography has been a consistent thread for many years, street and people first and foremost, though the lens tends to wander across landscape, architecture, and the occasional oddment that resists easy categorisation. A selection of favourites lives on my portfolio site, with less curated shots on Instagram. Writing runs alongside it as an occasional outlet: on education, leadership, and whatever else happens to be occupying my thinking.
It has been a privilege to live and work in the UK, across Asia (with the odd working trip to the Middle East), and now in Europe, learning how differently each culture approaches not just education, but life in general. There is one reassuring constant, though: teenagers, somehow, are teenagers wherever you go.