Bursar’s Review ISBA Annual Conference 2019

22 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS A2 15.45 – 16.45 A GREENER OUTLOOK – SAVING MONEY AND THE PLANET Martin Lander, chair Martin has been the director of finance and operations at Benenden School since February 2016. Prior to this, he spent 31 years in the Royal Navy, retiring in 2009. Since then, he managed the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Surrey between 2009 and 2012, after which he managed the University of Surrey’s programme to establish the eighth school of veterinary medicine in the UK. Panel Mark Adey Mark Adey is a director at Manchester-headquartered architects, The Fairhursts Design Group. With more than 20 years’ experience, Mark specialises in the design of highly complex and environmentally sensitive buildings for the research, industrial and education sectors. Working alongside a team of talented laboratory architects at The Fairhursts Design Group, Mark has delivered innovative facilities for the likes of the Wellcome Trust, the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult in Stevenage and the Science and Technology Facilities Council, as well as significant projects for the Universities of Cambridge, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds. Mark and his team were also lead architects for the multi-award winning GSK Carbon-Neutral Sustainable Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Nottingham, the UK’s first carbon neutral laboratory. Nigel Aylwin-Foster Nigel completed a full first career in the Army, including command of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment. He retired as a brigadier. Despite being a philosophy graduate, his final appointment was director of the technology division at the Defence Academy, responsible for technology education and project management training across all four services. He has worked continuously for education sector clients since he left the Army in 2009. He joined ReEnergise in 2015, to lead on sales and harness his knowledge of the challenges facing the education sector. He is a keen advocate of tackling climate change but sees his primary role as providing pragmatic advice on the potential risks and benefits of each project, rather than taking a purely evangelical stance. He is a contributor to the Bursar’s Review. Karen Gracie-Langrick Karen is deputy head (academic) at Leighton Park School, with experience across academic, pastoral, financial, technological and ethical aspects of leadership in schools. She has more than 20 years of teaching experience in ancient and modern history, gaining an MA in archaeological heritage management (University of York) and the NPQH (Institute of Education in October 2018). Whilst at Leighton Park, she has driven many initiatives, notably setting a five year ‘2020 vision’ to become a nationally recognised STEM centre of excellence and leading centre for computational science. She was an ISA National Awards finalist for Innovations in STEM (2018), the IT Facility Award winner in the Community Business Awards (2018) and STEM hub centre for Big Bang and Berkshire. More recently, she has been working to enable Leighton Park to become both a transformative centre for science technology engineering arts and maths (STEAM), to coincide with the opening of the school’s music and media centre in March this year and an inspirational and innovative centre for ethical enterprise, entrepreneurship and leadership in schools. She launched the student-centred and driven ‘Change Champions’ programme in conjunction with commercial IT, and established the school’s sustainability and ethics agenda (January 2019). Grace Segrave Grace received her BA in environmental studies and government from St. Lawrence University (USA) and University of Otago (NZ). She works as the ethical trade and sustainability consultant at the Commercial Group and is an integral part of the sustainability team. In particular, she focuses on data collation, legal responsibilities, internal and external communication, consultancy work and progressing the ethical trade agenda. Grace provides in-depth technical support to each of Commercial Group’s divisions, as well as to their customers and suppliers. She helps organisations maintain credibility as sustainability leaders and has an expansive understanding not only of the environmental problems that our world faces, but also the societal tendencies and stereotypes that come with being a forward thinking community. As part of the managed IT division, Grace works to ensure that the team delivers digital strategies with a conscience to all of the Commercial Group’s independent school clients. A3 15.45 – 16.45 IS INTERNATIONAL STILL THE ANSWER? Professor Ralph Tabberer CB, chair Chairman of BBD Education, Ralph has 40 years’ experience in schools, higher education and government. He was director general of schools for the Blair government and in 2009, he joined the school operator, GEMS, as chief executive. He subsequently founded BBD Education to provide solutions, management and support for schools and international chains. He has recently co-authored reports on low-cost schools and on international schooling globally. He has taken some of the world’s leading schools to the GCC and Singapore. In 2009, HM The Queen invested Ralph as a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (CB) for his services to schools. He is a visiting professor at the Universities of London and Warwick and researcher into how children study and learn, and he has expertise in curriculum, pedagogy, pupil assessment, teacher development, enterprise education and the new technologies. At GEMS, he supervised schools running the American, UK, Indian, Arab and IB systems. Ralph is a graduate of Cambridge University and a qualified teacher. He is a visiting professor at the Institute of www.theisba.org.uk