Brett’s lifelong mission is to help every child access an excellent education. He wrote the original business plan and founded Teach First and led the organisation for fifteen years, helping to build it into one of the UK’s leading movements to tackle education inequality and the largest graduate recruiter in the country.

He is co-founder and was Deputy CEO of Teach For All, which has brought the model to over 50 countries around the world. His current focus is as co-founder and CEO of Tiney, a digital platform that aims to improve the quality of early years education and as the non-executive chairman of the UK's National Citizen Service. He is also a trustee & co-founder of Teach First Israel and the UK Fair Education Alliance. He received an OBE for services to education in 2012 and has been named one of the Evening Standard's 1000 most influential Londoners five years in a row.

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