International Internal Communication Officer, AXA Corporate Solutions

Managing Editor, Telegraph Media Group Ltd

Managing Director, Jo Tasker Consulting Ltd

Executive Director for Europe, WEConnect International

Operations Lead – Global Center for Board Matters, Ernst & Young

Network Security Engineer at Aveva

Chief Marketing Officer at Bullitt Group Ltd

Editorial Director, Caspian Media

Director, Nexec Leaders & Co Founder, TLA Women in Tech

Association of State Girls' Schools

Founder, Forgather

Professor of Marketing and Associate Dean for Entrepreneurship at Cass Business School, City University London

Lecturer in Digital Technologies in Education, UCL Knowledge Lab

Education consultant and Co-Founder of MacroAdventure

Director of LifeSkills & Consumer Affairs, Barclays

Founder and Chairman, Founders4Schools

Group Director of Assessment Research and Development, Cambridge Assessment

Director Alter Via Ltd. Chair Career Management Quality Alliance and Director of University Relations CUG. Formerly CEO of Inspiring Futures.

Head of Global Communications, S/4HANA Cloud at SAP

Chief Strategy Officer, Droga5

CEO, Big Youth Group

Principal Adviser, London & Partners

Co-Founder Thred Media

Co-Founder & Director, Blippar

Co Founder, Seven Hills

Managing Director, Informa Tech

Co Founder, StartUp Britain

Campus Director, Flatiron School

VP Marketing, SAM Labs

Owner & Principal, Sigrid Daniel Associates

CEO & Founder, Mrs. Wordsmith

Co Founder, CognitionX

Director, Hummingbird Learning Ltd

Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO), PathCloud

St Mary’s is an all-girls school where any girl can thrive and achieve academic excellence. Building on their 115 year tradition the school belongs to an active international network of over 200 Mary Ward schools worldwide. It focuses on fostering a love of life and learning, while growing the academic talents and spiritual wellbeing of each individual girl, from within. It is not a one-size-fits-all education, as the school offers renowned pastoral care, understanding and individual support that encourages girls to look beyond themselves so that they enter adulthood aspiring to be more and to give more, not just to have more.

Toby works to help schools and colleges benefit from new ways of working, through grant-funding, research and some more experimental programmes. Toby's recent publications include ‘Educ-AI-tion Rebooted? Exploring the future of AI in schools and colleges’, ‘The EdTech Effect: Lessons from nine examples around the world’, and ‘What next for digital social innovation?’. He is also a founder member of Sleuth, a co-operative data consultancy. Before Nesta he worked for a consultancy looking at transport policy.

Rachel has been working for them on the Advanced Maths Support Programme (AMSP) since September 2018. Previously she taught maths for 20 years and was also a STEM Coordinator, working with businesses to convince students of the utility of maths through its various applications and the different careers that studying STEM subjects could possibly lead to. In October 2015 Rachel won The Joan Sjøvoll Award for STEM Leadership and in March 2017 her school won the Young Engineers ‘Inspiring Futures through Engineering Engagement’. Rachel is passionate about making students (and teachers and parents) aware of the importance of studying maths after GCSEs and the vast and varied careers that doing so can lead to.

Dr Katie Chicot is CEO of MathsWorldUK and Senior Lecturer Staff tutor in Mathematics and Statistics at the Open University. “I am passionate about the MathsWorldUK project to create the UK’s first Mathematics Discovery Centre. Tackling mathematical problems and encouraging others to engage with mathematical investigations are the cornerstones of my work. I have used all sorts of means of communicating mathematics, including co-creating the series Patterns of life for the Open University’s YouTube channel, captaining the OU’s team on BBC2’s Beat the Brain, participating in Facebook events and, more seriously, as academic consultant to BBC Radio 4’s More or Less. A recent venture is the creation of a maths/brain teaser app called Perplex, which is available on the App Store and Google Play. This was a collaboration with the UK Mathematics Trust, with whom I have worked for many years.”

Chairs Founders4Schools, and serves as a non-executive Director or Trustee of Workfinder, Pearson, DCMS, London Stock Exchange plc, and Raspberry Pi Foundation. She is also an author and a philanthropist, was awarded a CBE for Services to the Economy in 2013 and has been awarded three honorary doctorates for her work in education and the economy.

After a career across different industries, Michaela has successfully set up and runs an SME. She has strong leadership skills, the ability to formulate and drive strategy in a challenging environment. She has the ability to translate strategy into operations, making it accessible to the team. Her agile mindset allowed her to move quickly and identify opportunities as they arose, enabling her to secure grants, sponsorships and new contracts. This has enabled her to more than triple turnover over the 4 years of operations.

Her strong interpersonal skills and social mindset, has enabled her to successfully liaise and build continuous relationships with stakeholders on all levels. She successfully positioned herself and the organisation to be an influencer and subject specialist. Her financial and operational skill set enabled her to manage the organisation's finances as well as ensure delivery against targets in a fast growing business.

Following a career as a Biology teacher and FE lecturer, Jane progressed into management before moving into LA work leading ESF & DfE projects to increase the learning and progression opportunities for young people. She led national policies that resulted in Barnsley receiving national recognition for its success, from the DfE and Ofsted. She harnessed the potential of partnership working between different sector providers to diversify the 14-19 curriculum, developing supporting frameworks disseminated nationally as good practice.

Promoted to 14-19 Lead Officer in the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, she led the development of the 14-19 learning and skills strategy, leading schools, colleges, training providers and employers at strategic level. She also worked with the Humber LEP to develop strategies to improve the sub-region’s CEIAG to help raise the aspirations and employability skills of young people.

Jane now runs her Management Consultancy, working with leaders and their teams as an Advisor and Consultant, helping them develop and implement strategies that deliver sustainable organisational changes. She also volunteers as a Young Enterprise Business Adviser & Enterprise Adviser in schools.

Stephen became the Deputy Chief Executive of the Education Endowment Foundation in 2019, and works across all areas of its activity. Stephen also leads the development of the EEF’s international partnerships. These partnerships support the adoption and generation of evidence beyond England, and contribute back into the evidence base for English schools. He also contributes to the EEF’s dissemination and impact work, collaborating with educators to understand and translate evidence to support practical implementation in their local context.

Mina is a Non-Executive Director of 100 Women in Finance, CQS, The Population Council and also on the advisory board of RUSI. Mina was one of the first women to break into the hedge fund industry and was the first female Vice President at Lazard Freres and Co. Mina moved to London in 2008 where she headed Paulson’s European event, distressed and credit investment teams. In 2009 Mina was awarded the European Hedge Fund Leadership Award of 100 Women in Hedge Funds (now 100 Women in Finance) and has been named several times as one of the Top 100 Women in Hedge Funds by the Hedge Fund Journal and as one of the Top 50 Women in Finance by efinancial news/Dow Jones.

Mina is a former non-executive director of EXOR, CNH Industrial NV and of Lafarge SA and member of the Global Advisory Committee of Samsung Asset Management.

Ryan is responsible for the quality of careers education for 35,000 young people across 58 primary, secondary and sixth form schools. Ryan is an experienced senior leader in secondary education and was awarded the Sinnott Fellowship for his work in connecting education and business. He is passionate about helping students apply what they learn in the classroom to the wider the world. Before joining AET, Ryan worked as a member of the Executive Team at the North East LEP, where he established ‘North East Ambition’ and served on the Regional Employment and Skills Board. In 2015 Ryan successfully led the national pilot of the Gatsby Foundation’s 'Good Career Guidance' benchmarks, resulting in a new DfE National Careers Strategy in England. Ryan worked with the Careers and Enterprise Company on the regional and national roll out of the Gatsby Benchmarks, including the development of the national careers hub model. In 2017 Ryan was recognised as ‘UK Career Educator of the Year’ by the Career Development Institute and during the Covid19 pandemic he helped to create the careers content for Oak National Academy, which was accessed by over 100,000 young people.

He is proud to be Vice Chair of Governors at a primary school in Gateshead and a Governor of a secondary school in Sheffield.

Camilla Gilmore is Reader in Mathematical Cognition and co-director of the Centre. Her research is focused on understanding how mathematics skills develop with particular attention to early years development. This work aims to identify cognitive and environmental factors that influence mathematics learning and to understand why some children have difficulties learning mathematics. She holds a Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship from the Royal Society and was awarded the 2020 Experimental Psychology Society Prize Lecture.

With a background as an academic, 38 years’ teaching and leadership experience and 450 publications. For the last six years he has also spent much time and energy on mathematics education reforms (mostly in England), particularly Post 16 Mathematics - A levels and Core Maths. Paul works with many colleagues (50+) in DfE on mathematics education policy, practice, curriculum, qualifications, professional development, and teacher recruitment, retention, non-specialist maths teacher initiatives - future teaching scholars, maths scholarships, TSST. He works with many teachers, learned societies and subject associations in the course of these activities, and is a member or chair of 50+ national and regional advisory boards/committees, including the Royal Society ACME A level Contact Group, Ofqual Expert Panels, DfE Expert Panels, IMA, LMS, CCEA, AMSP, Maths Hubs, and is the immediate past Chair of the Joint Mathematical Council of the UK. Paul is driven to do everything he can to provide appropriate opportunities and strong encouragement for all students to take mathematics post 16, and to ensure the highest quality mathematics education for all.

Timo is the founding Managing Director of School Dash Limited, an education technology company based in London. Prior to SchoolDash, Timo was the founding managing director of Digital Science in London, United Kingdom where he ran the company from its foundation in 2010 until 2015. Digital Science was founded to provide software and services aimed at scientific researchers and research administrators. Prior to this Timo was director of nature.com, a consultant at McKinsey & Company, a writer for The Economist and a research neurophysiologist at the University of Oxford and Waseda University in Tokyo. He is also a non-executive director of SAGE Publishing.

Royal Society Senior Policy Advisor

Carole joined the Royal Statistical Society as Education Manager in 2018 focussing on education policy. RSS is an internationally recognised organisation that can influence education policy for the greater good. Carole enjoys engaging with RSS members, and other interested individuals, to inspire our generation by highlighting the importance of understanding statistics and using data to explore the world within an ethical framework. This will help policy-makers make informed evidence-based choices to positively improve our everyday lives and communities.

Matthew Inglis is a Professor of Mathematical Cognition at Loughborough University, where he co-directs the Centre for Mathematical Cognition. His research aims to understand the cognitive processes involved in numerical thinking, logical reasoning, and mathematical learning. His work has been widely published across psychology, education and philosophy journals. In 2014 he was awarded the Selden Prize by the Mathematical Association of America, and in 2017 he was named the Times Higher Education Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year.

Currently the client director in a multi-family office, advising families and implementing bespoke financial plans and investment strategies.

Christy started her career in South Africa, after graduating with a Business Management Degree from Stellenbosch University, where she majored in Corporate Finance, Investment Management and Financial Planning. She further went on to qualify as a Certified Financial Planner and Chartered Wealth Manager in the UK.

Passionate about coaching and empowering women to be financially independent. Member of 100 Women in Finance and Volunteer for Maths4Girls. Avid trail runner.

Originally a secondary biology teacher, most recently as a Lead Practitioner for a Learning Trust of primary and secondary schools. Louise led a DfE funded STEM Learning regional programme of CPD for science educators including initiatives to develop thinking and reasoning skills, improve transition from primary to secondary science, and joint projects with stakeholders such as the Maths Hub and the EEF. This encompassed creation of resources, bid writing, designing, delivering and commissioning CPD based on local and national needs. In particular has focussed on a number of strategies to improve STEM careers awareness, highlight unconscious gender bias in STEM, and improve Science Capital in students. This included leadership of ‘Aspire to STEM’ partnerships which tackled low aspiration in deprived areas through improving teaching, leadership, and careers information. Louise is particularly interested in using coaching to support professional development, and has also served as a primary school governor.

Dawn has more than 25 years of experience in senior international positions in the insurance industry. Prior to joining Chubb in 2018, she was President/CEO of Axa Insurance Company in the United States. She has also held other leadership roles in Europe, the Middle East and the United States for AIG and Willis Towers Watson.

Anne was Headteacher of Langley Park School for Girls from 2011-2018 and in that time founded Langley Park Academies Trust. She has extensive senior leadership experience, including 13 years' headship. Anne taught in a range of schools including in Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham and Lambeth. Anne holds the National Professional Qualification in Headship as well as a PhD in Education. Her expertise includes teacher training, school improvement and school inspection. Anne enjoys educational research and has developed insight into evidence informed practice in FE and schools.

Tim is Group Director of Assessment Research and Development at Cambridge Assessment, focussing on national and international research on assessment and measurement. He has published widely on assessment and curriculum, also undertaking wide-ranging international comparison of the performance of education systems, and advising OECD on its curriculum review work. He was a member of Ofqual’s Standards Advisory Group from 2010-16, recently moving from this group to the Ofqual Vocational Standards Advisory Group. Tim routinely provides briefings and advice to the UK and other governments. He is a Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge, and in 2015 he was awarded a CBE for Services to Education.

Joe has worked in communications for scientific, environmental and educational communications for more than 15 years. He has spearheaded campaigns to generate funds for scientific research, raise awareness of the scientific consensus around climate change, and drive greater gender equity in STEM subjects. He is now Head of Communications at the education charity Ark where his communications expertise is being used to support Ark’s 38 schools, promote Ark’s innovative range of charitable ventures and, more generally, fight to close the disadvantage gap.

Involves network collaborative projects including the Secondary Mastery Specialist programme, and working with Initial Teacher Education providers. Mary taught mathematics in secondary schools and a sixth form college, including two Head of Mathematics positions. Subsequently, I moved into higher education, where I led PGCE Mathematics, devised and taught PD programmes for serving teachers, led a mathematics undergraduate degree pathway, and taught on a mathematics Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE) course and MA modules. Mary believes that mathematics educators can share their diverse expertise and learn from each other, and thereby improve outcomes for learners, enabling children and young people to enjoy lasting benefits from success in mathematics.

Leilah previously taught as a primary school teacher, with a particular interest in maths and science, before joining the Civil Service in 2014. After roles within the Cabinet Office, The Behavioural Insights Team and managing JobCentres, she joined the Department for Education to work on STEM policy. Leilah was instrumental in designing and setting up the new National Centre for Computing Education and overseeing the development of the £76 million Teaching for Mastery maths programme.

Experienced data analyst with a background in identifying trends and uncovering insights in the financial, education and government sectors.

John is CEO for the Careers & Enterprise Company, the Government's national body for delivering the careers strategy for young people in England. The role involves senior stakeholder engagement including senior government (ministerial and civil service), major employers and a variety of national partner bodies.

John has more than 20 years’ experience in the employment and skills sector and was previously the Chief Executive of the Futures Group, a social enterprise supporting tens of thousands of young people and adults with their next steps in careers, as well as supporting businesses with their recruitment and training needs.

Evie has recently joined the team having worked in the cultural sector for seven years, specialising in sponsorship and partnerships for the latter four. Evie’s previous role was Senior Corporate Development Manager at the National Portrait Gallery

Dynamic, revenue-focused fundraising leader with broad experience across the board. A confident contributor at senior leadership level since 2008, Laurena is skilled in strategic, long-term and sustainable income planning, communication and marketing, branding, PR and media, stakeholder engagement and effective networking, VIP management, presenting to large audiences, inspiring leadership and efficient people management, identifying wider organisational opportunity and delivering to target.

Joined F4S in January 2021 to support the Engineering and Project team. Prior to F4S, Sam has worked as a resourceful and hands-on Business Analyst/Project manager with various financial institutions (Barclays, RBS, Nationwide, Link Asset Management) and local authority. Sam has experience of full project life cycle working within Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall environments. He is adept at business process evaluation, analysis and modelling. Sam has excellent project/stakeholder management skills and good requirements elicitation/analysis/documentation/management skills.

Principal Officer, Glasgow City Council

Director, Framewire

Senior Marketing Manager, Navitas

Head of Enterprise and Investment, Scottish Government

CEO, Dundee Chamber of Commerce

Manager, DYW Inverness

Opps for All Manager, Highland Council

Chief Education Officer, Dundee City Council

Senior Policy Advisor, FSB

Business Advisor, AB15

Professor, St Andrew’s University

Opps for All Manager, Aberdeen City Council

Chairman, 4 Studios

Manager, DYW Ayrshire

Member, Informatics Ventures

CEO & Founder, Giglets Education

CEO, Skills Development Scotland

Technology Accelerator Director, The Oil and Gas Technology Centre

CEO, IOD Scotland

Chair, DYW Forth Valley

Head, Sectors Team, Highlands and Islands Enterprise

Professional Development Officer, University of Strathclyde

Chief Executive, Scottish Institute for Enterprise

Chief Executive, East Ayrshire Council

CEO, Skyscanner

CEO, Young Enterprise Scotland

Director, Skills Development Scotland

Director, Creative Dundee

CEO, Scottish Council for Educational Leadership

Head of Entrepreneurship, RBS

Founder, m2lasers

Manager, Scottish Schools Education Research Centre

Director, CBI Scotland

Deputy Director, Scottish Government

Head of Education, East Ayrshire Counci

Founder, Coppertop

Director, Oil & Gas, Opportunity North East

Director of Policy, Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce

Managing Director, Entrepreneurial Scotland

Chairman, Codebase

Managing Director of Customer Operations, Scottish Enterprise

Professional Development Officer, University of Strathclyde

Manager, DYW Forth Valley

Head of Service, Glasgow City Council

Head of SME Engagement, Strathclyde University

Deputy First Minister, Scottish Government

Winning Scotland Foundation, Broad Reach

Manager, Elevator

HE and Employer Partnerships, Scottish Government

Head of Employability and Talent Development, Edinburgh City Council

Chief Education Officer, Stirling Council

Founder, Learning and Technology Futures

Founder, Spreng Thomson

CEO, Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce

Development Officer of Enterprising Schools, Scottish Government

CEO, Young Scot

Founder, Genius Food Ltd

Manager, Stirling University Innovation Park

Chairman, RBS

Senior Education Officer, Education Scotland

Chief Executive, Columba 1400

Policy Lead, Scottish Government

Head of Employers Services, Skills Development Scotland

Schools Programme Manager, Young Enterprise Scotland

Head of Scotland, LDC

Developing the Young Workforce, Skills Development Scotland

Founder, Rookie Oven

Executive Director, Ernst & Young LLP

Manager, DYW Edinburgh, Mid and East Lothian

Executive Director, Winning Scotland Foundation

Executive Director, Dundee City Council

Manager, DYW North East

CEO, STV Group

CEO, Entrepreneurial Scotland

Senior Policy Officer, Scottish Government

Head of Employer Infrastructure, Scottish Government

Chair, The Hunter Foundation

CEO, Scottish Canals

Project Manager, Scottish Enterprise

Team Leader, DYW Employer Engagement Team

CEO, Glasgow Chamber of Commerce

Chair, IOD Scotland

Royal Society Industry Fellow, University of Edinburgh

CEO, Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce

Director of Business Development, Dundee and Angus College

Senior Backend Developer, Festicket