OUR BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Richard has been involved in Education for 15 years. He spent a number of years working in School Marketing and Admissions before becoming the Operations Director of a School in Singapore where he was responsible for the School facilities, finances, HR and admissions. In 2015, Richard became the Managing Director of the International Curriculum Association which designs and develops curriculum for over 1000 Schools globally. During this time, he led the development of the International Early Years Curriculum. In 2021, Richard became the Managing Director for NAE’s Schools in Latin America which involved governance responsibilities for 11 Schools across 7 countries. Since 2024, Richard is the Regional Managing Director for NAE’s 17 Schools in Europe.

With over 30 years’ experience in education, Andrew Gillespie brings extensive leadership expertise and deep sector knowledge to OIC's Governing Body, along with a strong commitment to academic excellence and student success.

Andrew is an experienced school inspector in the UK and overseas and an Ofqual Subject Expert in Business and Economics. He is Chief Examiner for A Level and AS Level Business and International Business, Chair of Examiners for GCSE Business, and an author of teacher training programmes and academic textbooks.

As Vice Chair of Governors, Andrew provides strategic oversight and independent challenge, supporting the College in maintaining high academic standards, robust governance, and a continued focus on excellence.

From 2016 to 2020, Kate was the Chief Inspector of ISI responsible for the entire end to end inspection process for ISI. As a member of the senior Leadership she was the key contributor to strategic planning, evaluation, and professional development initiatives, for maintaining the quality of inspection and the inspector workforce, for providing evidence based insight to raise pupil and student performance, and to represent the professional expertise of ISI at national and international level.

Dale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards, having previously been a course tutor since 1998. In July 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s training programme, including both day seminars and accredited training courses. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter and has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our international members. He also liaises with ISI, Ofsted and DfE on matters relating to compliance and inspection standards, and compiles the BSA Self-Assessment toolkit, which he first produced in 2002, since which time he has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding. For 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board.

Sam Manger is the Regional Finance Director for Europe and has been with Nord Anglia Education for 8 years with prior roles including Group Head of FP&A and Group Head of Compliance. He is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant and started his career in the West Midlands training as a Forensic Accountant before moving into Forensic Investigations for a global oil and gas company.

Jenny is a senior leader with experience of supporting and challenging schools to sustainably improve. Prior to joining NAE, Jenny held senior roles in Academy Trusts including Deputy Director of Education in EACT and Head of Performance in the David Ross Education Trust. Early into her appointment in both Trusts Jenny’s roles included accurately identifying the quality of provision. This led to a significant number of schools being identified as underperforming with poor value added and progress measures and at risk of entering a category of concern, or not improving on their last inspection outcome, in their next Ofsted inspections. Jenny was Chair or a Member of newly established Academy Improvement Boards in the highest priority schools and part of the process to turn these schools around. Her role included developing strategic school development plans and mobilising support from across and beyond the Trusts. In her current role in NAE she supports the NAE School Improvement and Quality Assurance process that builds the capacity of leaders to drive school improvement based on accurate self-evaluation.

Graham joined Nord Anglia in September 2018 bringing his wealth of experience within the international sector and educational and leisure industries. As a Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner, with a track record of over 25 years of delivering value-added risk management to prominent organisations, he is passionate about building a best in class service for all our schools. Following his undergraduate science degree and early career in construction, Graham realised his true vocation. After returning to university to attain his Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Safety, he was appointed Her Majesty’s Inspector of Health & Safety in the UK, where he was responsible for workplaces in the education, leisure and healthcare sectors. Moving to the private sector, he combined a successful role as a Director in a specialist agency advising the film and television industries, whilst lecturing on a university Masters Safety degree and managing safety for a complex multi-site NHS healthcare trust. Graham’s international career took off at the British Council where he led on safety and security across an estate spanning 110 countries. Following this, Graham took up the challenge of extending his skills within the emergency services, as Head of Health & Safety and Internal Assurance.

Guy joined Nord Anglia in September 2023, responsible for helping the organisation and schools manage the global lease portfolio proactively, supporting best practice in estate and lease transaction management. Guy is a qualified Chartered Surveyor and has over 20 years real estate, with a unique breadth of experience in leasing, development, project management and estate/facilities management. After qualifying and working in commercial leasing and development in the UK. He moved out to Singapore for over 8 years, working across Asia Pacific on real estate transactions, becoming the regional transaction management lead for one of Jones Lang LaSalle’s largest global clients, Procter & Gamble. Guy moved back to the UK in 2014 and spent 9 years as Estate Bursar for Highfield & Brookham School’s 517-acre estate. He was responsible for strategic master planning, operations, health & safety, budgeting, facilities management, the school's sustainability strategy and all capital / refurbishment projects.

Ben Joined Nord Anglia in 2020, with responsibility to support and enable a World Class Family Experience. With over 25 years experience, working across countries and territories, Ben has a track record of developing people and teams to improve customer's experience. Coming from a commercial background which started in Diageo, then Consulting across multiple sectors, he understands the commercial realities and what it takes to ensure a World Class service or product. With responsibility for International recruitment for Nord Anglia’s boarding schools, Ben has a unique insight, into what families (and agents) want and need from a Boarding and Educational standpoint, this ensures a true partnership approach, which looks to deliver the right school for the right child, unlocking that child's potential.

Sue has held a number of leadership positions across NAE, including Principal roles at The British School of Warsaw and BIS Hanoi. During her time in Warsaw she was responsible for establishing the School’s mission and vision which delivered significant improvements to the School’s educational offer and commercial performance. She is a qualified inspector for the British School Overseas inspections with ISI and has been part of numerous Boards offering oversight of Schools around the world.