David Starkey
Renowned historian; he wrote and presented ‘Monarchy’ for Channel 4 and has appeared in Jamie Oliver’s ‘Dream School’.
Anastasia de Waal
Director of Family and Education at Civitas
Stephen Twigg
Shadow Education Secretary and the Labour and Co-operative MP for Liverpool West Derby.
Toby Young
Associate editor of the Spectator, a blogger for the Telegraph and also a published author.
Matthew Taylor
CEO of the RSA (Royal Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce) and previous Downing Street advisor.
Matthew Syed
Journalist, broadcaster and author of ‘Bounce’.
James Tooley
Professor of Education Policy, Newcastle University. He published The Beautiful Tree, about private education in developing countries
Professor Sonia Blandford
The founder and CEO of the charity Achievement for all 3As.
Geoff Barton
Head of King Edward VI School, author, editor and columnist for the Times Education Supplement
Dr Paul Howard-Jones
Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Bristol’s Graduate School of Education.
Ann Mroz
Editor of the Times Higher Education
Head of one of the leading independent girls’ schools in the UK.
Ian Fordham
Co-founder, Education Foundation
Katharine Birbalsingh
Britain’s most controversial teacher. She has published her first book, To Miss
with Love.
Michael Brooks
Journalist, broadcaster and author of ’13 things that don’t make sense’.
John West-Burnham
Professor of Educational Leadership at St Mary’s University College, and author of ‘Managing Quality in Schools’.
Fellow of Wolfson College, Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Warwick and Director of the Cambridge Primary Review
We are also happy to present the following speakers as well.
More details to come.
Bryan Appleyard
Doug Belshaw
James Bradburne
Tim Brighouse
Anna Cain
Abdul Chohan
Mick Waters
Danny Dorling
Ty Goddard
Ben Haggerty
David Hargreaves
Lucy Heller
Owen Jones
Jacob Kragh
Charles Leadbeater
Amanda Spielman
Bill Lucas
Dan Moynihan
Steve Munby
David Nicoll
Benjamin Perl
John Sampson
David Perks
Rory Sutherland
Matthew Taylor
George Trow
Greg Wallace
Catherine Zeserson
Debbie Ariyo
Allie Esiri
Uta Frith
Geoff Parks
Paul Kelley
Brett Wigdorz
Master of the New College of the Humanities and author and journalist.
David Cannadine
Historian and Author of numerous books including 'Class in Britain' and 'Making History, Now and Then'
Co-director of the Centre for Real-World Learning and Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Winchester.
David Crystal
Specialist in English Language as well as a notable writer, editor, lecturer and broadcaster.
Peter Wilby
Columnist for the New Statesman and the Guardian.
David Aaronovitch
Journalist for the Times and author of Voodoo Histories.
Lord Adonis
Director of the Institute for Government and previously a Downing Street minister and advisor.
Ben Goldacre
An award-winning writer, author of Bad Science, and medical doctor, who specialises in unpicking pseudo-scientific claims.
Ger Graus
Founding CEO of the Children’s University.
Ian Livingstone
Ian Livingstone OBE is one of the founding fathers of the UK’s interactive entertainment industry and Life President of Eidos.
Conrad Wolfram
Physicist, mathematician and technologist, and the leading advocated for maths education to be made computer-based.
John d’Abbro
Head of the New Rush Hall Group, an organisation that helps children with behavioural and emotional difficulties.
Ben Hammersley
Technologist and writer, specialising in the effects of the internet on society.
Eileen Hopkins
Worked in the field of autism for over thirty years. She is the International Development Director for Autistica.
Thomas Bennett
Behaviour Advisor to the Times Educational Supplement, a full time teacher, and
an educational author and journalist.
Sir Michael Wilshaw
Executive Principal of Mossbourne City Academy, described by Ofsted as ‘outstanding’. Headteacher in London for 26 years.
Chief Executive of UCAS
Peter Barron
Andrew Coptson
Bill Thompson
Keri Facer
Yvonne Gilan
Maryon Stewart
Charles Hazlewood
Richard Hoskins
Steve Jones
Tom Lawton
Martin Lewis
John Macbeath
Greg Martin
Douglas Murray
Zoe Redhead
Hilary Robinson
Peter Stanford
Wes Streeting
Alice Taylor
Elizabeth Varley
Stanley Wells
Douglas Archibald
John Bangs
Derek Brown
Claire Fox
John Kampfner
Rachel Kelly
Rachel Macfarlane
Michael Fielding
Debbie Watson
Mary Bousted
David Goodhart
Peter Lampl
Stefan Collini