Sam Freedman

Speaker Summary

Sam is a Senior Adviser to Ark Schools and a Senior Fellow covering education at the Institute of Government. He has worked in education for almost 20 years and has previously been a Senior Policy Adviser to the DfE (2010-2013); an Executive Director at Teach First 2013-2018); and CEO of Education Partnerships Group (2018-2021). He is on the board of a number of education charities including Ambition Institute and the Holocaust Education Trust and is a governor at a secondary school in North London.

Full Profile

Sam Freedman is a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and writes regularly on politics and policy for Prospect, New Statesman, TES, FT, Guardian and Sunday Times. Sam and his father, Lawrence Freedman, co-author their popular substack newsletter ‘Comment is Freed’. Previously he was CEO of Education Partnerships Group, which supports governments in sub-Saharan Africa to develop education policy and was an executive director at Teach First. He worked at the Department for Education as a senior policy adviser to Michael Gove between 2010 and 2013. Sam is also a senior adviser to the education charity Ark; Vice-Chair of Ambition Institute; and a trustee of the Holocaust Educational Trust.