Carl Ward

Speaker Summary

Carl is Chair of the Foundation for Education Development (FED). He is also Chief Executive of the City Learning Trust; a 3 to 19 Academy Trust in Staffordshire. He has regional, national and international experience in education strategy, leadership development and school to school improvement.

Areas of Expertise

Leadership and Management – Professional Development – Whole School Improvement

Full Profile

In a career spanning 26 years in teaching, 18 of them in senior leadership, Carl has worked in a range of schools and organisations across a number of settings. Further to this, Carl was ASCL President in 2017-2018 and between 2009 and 2011, was part of the Prime Minister’s Talent & Enterprise Taskforce. He has also advised the Number 10 policy unit on several aspects of education.

As Chair of the Careers and Enterprise Company’s Education Advisory Board since its inception he has helped guide national careers strategy. He has previously been Chair for the Schools Cooperative Society and the Chartered College of Teaching’s trustee selection com-mittee. He is a serving council member of the International Confederation of Principals and a member of the Global Education Leaders Partnership. In addition, Carl has been a mem-ber of the Education Funding Agency advisory board; DfE School and Academy Funding Group; Confederation of School Trust Board and the European School Headteachers Association.

In 2020 Carl was recognised for his impact in education and named as a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, and as a Fellow of the Leadership Council at the Center for Universal Education, Brookings Institution, Washinton DC.

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