Adam’s association with education in sub-Saharan Africa began in 2010 when he was involved in setting up youth leadership programmes in Kenya and Sierra Leone. In 2012 he helped to establish a new chain of schools in Zambia, inspiring his passion for unlocking Africa’s potential through education.
Adam spent eight years as CEO of Changemakers, a leading UK educational NGO, where he advised Prime Ministers Brown and Cameron on education and youth policy and was named by Charity Times as a ‘Rising CEO Star’.
Adam sits on conduct and capability panels for the UK government’s National College for Teaching and Leadership and is a non-executive Director of Edapt, a new professional body for teachers. Previously he founded one of the UK’s first Free Schools, supported a leading UK academy chain with the opening of new schools and developed international school career development programmes with the Careers Research and Advisory Centre. He began his career as a community organiser in some of the UK’s most disadvantaged towns and cities.
Adam comes from a teaching family, counting parents, cousins and his wife among members of the profession. If he wasn’t working in education he would be on stage, and he still occasionally finds time to direct plays for a fringe theatre company just outside London.