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JOHN MORRISON (CHAIR) Journalist and Founding Director McGarvie Morrison Media	John Morrison is a graduate of the University of Glasgow. he joined the BBC as a trainee. Between 2001 and 2006, John was Scotland correspondent with BBC news, reporting for the News Channel and the main news bulletins. Before that he was Chief Political correspondent in the Scottish Parliament and Europe correspondent, based in Brussels. In 2006 John left the BBC to set up the Communications company McGarvie Morrison Media that specialises in PR, Public Affairs and Media training. The company's client list includes Atos Origin, Diageo, Heriot-Watt University, Lloyds Banking Group, the Scotch Whisky Association and Scottish Power.


DAVID CAMERON Leader Scottish Government’s Review of Devolved School Management	David Cameron is an independent consultant undertaking a range of major projects and reviews and supporting national developments, particularly in Curriculum for Excellence, and delivering training across the UK and internationally. He recently reviewed arrangements for Devolved School Management for the Scottish Government. He was Director of Children’s Services in Stirling Council until August 2009. Prior to that, he was Head of Education in East Lothian from February 2001 – June 2005. He was President of the Association of Directors of Education Scotland and has been involved with a range of national groups. David worked as a teacher and a senior manager in schools for several years and has wide experience in all areas of education.


PROFESSOR DENIS MONGON Visiting Professorial Fellow London Centre for Leadership in Learning, Institute of Education, University of London	Prof Mongon’s main professional interest is in modern approaches to school leadership and, in particular, the development of personal and institutional networks which nurture community participation, inter-agency activity and coherent service delivery. He believes this is one contribution to raising the ambition and achievement of young people, their families and the people who work with them, especially in economically poor neighbourhoods. After teaching in a London secondary school in the early 1970s he moved to work with some of the city’s more difficult pupils. He was Headteacher at a school for ‘maladjusted’ (ebd) pupils in Camden then Director of a multi-disciplinary Educational Guidance Centre in Hackney. In 1982 I joined the Inner London inspectorate service. Prof Mongon held second tier posts in Hertfordshire from 1989 to 1998, including A/D for SEN, A/D for Development, Advice and Support and a one year secondment to the Chief Executive’s office for a review all of the Council’s services. The review led to the then novel integration of the Education Department and Children’s Social Services. Since 1998, his freelance work has included local government roles, amongst them ‘Children’s Services Change Adviser’ to the Chief Executive in Tower Hamlets. He has worked for Ofsted, most recently on its ‘well being’ criteria and has led for the Audit Commission on a number of local authority inspections. He has worked with national and local government agencies in Scotland on system reform. All of that, alongside contracts with DfE, DCSF, SSAT, IDeA, TDA, YST and other acronyms, has allowed him to work with some terrific adults and young people. Prof Mongon has worked and written extensively on leadership for the National College for Leadership of School’s and Children’s’ Services including on the design and delivery of its programmes for Directors and aspiring Directors of Children’s Services. He has held appointments at London where he is Visiting Professorial Fellow, Manchester where he is a Senior Research Fellow and Cambridge where he was Lecturer in Inclusion. He is a Senior Associate of the Innovation Unit for whom he worked with the Cabinet Office on the value of mutuals and co-ops for public services.


PROFESSOR RICHARD KERLEY Professor of Management Queen Margaret University	Professor Richard Kerley Professor of Management Queen Margaret University Richard Kerley is currently Professor of Management at Queen Margaret University College, where he has worked since January 2003. He was previously at the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Local Authorities Management Centre at the University of Strathclyde. He has also been a visiting scholar at Yale University. He is a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Technology and Management (ITM) Mumbai and the East Asia Institute of Management ESAB Singapore. Before entering academic life Richard worked in advertising, hospitality, and in prison education. Richard was a councillor in Edinburgh for eight years and chaired two committees. He also chaired the Scottish Executive Working Party on Renewing Local Democracy; the report of which was published in July 2000 and which was legislated for in June 2004 as the Local Governance Act. Richard is the author of various books, research papers, academic journals and numerous articles in the quality print media. His most recent publications include a book chapter on performance in public services, and journal articles on the management of urban car parking as an example of effective practice in public management and Single Outcome Agreements in local government. He also writes regularly for the quality and trade press and contributes to TV, radio and online news.


KEIR BLOOMER Director Tapestry Partnership	Keir Bloomer is an independent education consultant. He is also Chair of the Tapestry Partnership and Chair of the Court of Queen Margaret University. From 1996 until November 2000, he was Executive Director of Education and Community Services with Clackmannanshire Council and was President of the Association of Directors of Education in Scotland in 1999/2000. Subsequently he became Chief Executive of the Council, a post from which he retired in May 2007. He was a member of the review group which wrote “A Curriculum for Excellence”, Scotland’s national curriculum policy statement, having previously been one of the advisers to the Education, Culture and Sport Committee of the Scottish Parliament in connection with its inquiry into the purposes of education. At various times he has been Vice-Chair of Learning and Teaching Scotland, Depute General Secretary of the Educational Institute of Scotland and a member of the General Teaching Council.


JIM MCCOLL OBE Chairman and Chief Executive Clyde Blowers	Jim McColl left school at 16 to take up an engineering apprenticeship with Weir Pumps at Cathcart in Glasgow. After six years having studied part time for City & Guilds Ordinary National and Higher National Certificates, he left work to take up full time study at Strathclyde University for a BSc Degree in Technology and Business Studies. After graduating with an Honours Degree in 1978 he returned to Weir Pumps where he remained for three years while studying part-time for a Masters Degree in Business Administration. In 1992 after various senior management positions in engineering, completion of a second Masters Degree in International Accounting and Finance and a spell as a senior consultant with Coopers & Lybrand, Jim bought 29.9% of a small engineering company based in Glasgow. Turnover at that time was £4m. Over the past 10 years Clyde Blowers has developed into a truly global portfolio of 85 companies in 27 different countries, employing 5,500 people, with an annual turnover in excess of £1.35bn. These businesses are grouped under six holding companies ¬- Clyde Bergemann, Clydeunion Pumps, David Brown Gear Systems, David Brown Hydraulics, Maag Pumps and Interbulk Plc.


ISABELLE BOYD CBE Headteacher Cardinal Newman High School	Isabelle Boyd, a well-known member the Scottish Education community, has had 17 years in senior leadership posts and has been headteacher at Cardinal Newman High School in Bellshill for almost nine years. She started teaching Modern Studies in Glasgow in 1978 and went on to be a Principal Teacher in the same city from 1982 to 1994. Isabelle had a brief spell as Parental Liaison Officer for Dunbarton Division of Strathclyde Region before taking up senior management posts in two North Lanarkshire schools. She led Cardinal Newman High School through the School of Ambition initiative which effected transformational change and made the school ready to easily and readily adopt the values and teaching approaches of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE). Isabelle is a strong supporter of CfE and is a member of the Early Adopters Group. Cardinal Newman High School achieved an excellent HMIe inspection report in 2008 and Isabelle’s leadership received particular mention. The reputation of the school is such that delegations from the education and political community – locally, nationally and internationally – are directed to visit to meet with staff and pupils and to witness best practice in many aspects of 21st century practice. Isabelle is a member of the group set up under the Chair of Professor Gerry McCormac to review the current arrangements for teacher employment in Scotland and make recommendations designed to secure improved educational outcomes for our children and young people. She is also the current Chair of the Catholic Headteachers’ Association of Scotland.


JOHN STODTER General Secretary ADES	With over 30 years of experience in education, management and local government, John Stodter works as an education adviser, consultant and interim manager on short-term assignments in various local authorities and for national organisations in Scotland. Since 2006, his central and continuing role as the General Secretary for the Association of Directors of Education in Scotland has kept him at the forefront of the changing face of education and children’s services. John was Director of Learning and leisure in Aberdeen city for ten years – the youngest in Scotland when appointed at the time of local government reorganisation – and has therefore been personally involved in significant organisational and political change locally, regionally and nationally. He moved to Aberdeen from England in 1991, working as Education Officer then Education Manager in the city under the old Grampian Region. In the late 1970s and through the 1980s, John worked south of the border firstly as a teacher, then in curriculum and staff development in Humberside County Council. He worked with schools in Scunthorpe and Hull as they went through a phase of unprecedented change with local financial management and the introduction of the National Curriculum.


BELINDA GREER Head of Education Stirling and Clackmannanshire Councils	Belinda Greer was previously a member of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education where she was national lead inspector for the independent sector and district inspector for two local authorities. Belinda began her teaching career in the Middle East before returning to Scotland. She held various posts including Class Teacher, Depute Headteacher, Headteacher and Education Officer. Belinda has experience serving on national committees. She was an executive member of the Catholic Headteachers Association of Scotland and for three years was its President.


ANNETTE BRUTON Director of Education Culture and Sport, Aberdeen City Council	Annette Bruton previously worked as a Chief Inspector with Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) and has enjoyed a distinguished career in the field of education. Annette joined HMIE as an Inspector in January 2001 and became a Chief Inspector in 2005, with responsibility for the inspection of education, community learning and development, and psychological services across Scotland. Her directorate was also responsible for following up on school inspection and school improvement. Before joining HMIE, she was a service manager for quality assurance in Stirling Council's children's services. She has also worked as a senior manager in the Higher Still national development programme and was involved in the National Curriculum assessment programme from 1996 to 1999. Prior to that she worked in the field of learning support and special needs in the former Lothian Regional Council, dealing with vulnerable children and their families. She began her career as a geography and economics teacher in Dundee.


ALAN HARDIE Principal Whitburn Church of England Academy, Newcastle	After graduating from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in Geography, Alan Hardie gained an MSc in Ecology at the University of Durham. He then took up a teaching role with the Field Studies Council in North Wales. This sparked a passion for teaching which led to a PGCE course in Geography at the University of Newcastle. Alan then taught in schools in Tyne and Wear and County Durham before becoming Head of Humanities at Prudhoe Community High School in Northumberland. His work on alternative approach to homework gained national recognition and led to him to working for the Northumberland ‘Thinking for Learning’ advisory team. In 2006, Alan was appointed as Assistant Headteacher at Whitburn Church of England School in South Tyneside and was then promoted to Deputy Headteacher in 2008. He became Acting Principal in January 2011, when Whitburn became the first Voluntary Aided School in England and Wales to convert to academy status. In July 2011 he was appointed to the post of Principal.