Leadership Unlocked: Sir Alasdair Macdonald CBE

Thursday 13 February 2025

9:30-11:30am

Sir Alasdair Macdonald CBE will be delivering the National Academy for Educational Leadership’s next Leadership Unlocked webinar.

After graduating from Aberdeen University Alasdair worked in Malawi, in a range of roles in London schools and for four years in Papua New Guinea. He was Headteacher of Morpeth School in Tower Hamlets for 21 years up to August 2013. During that period, attainment at the school rose significantly and OFSTED inspections in 2007 and 2013 rated Morpeth as Outstanding. The school was featured as one of the 12 schools in the OFSTED publication “Achieving against the odds”.

He was a member of the Department of Education’s Headteacher Reference Group and was asked by the Secretary of State to lead a national review of Personal, Social and Health Education. In 2003 he was awarded the CBE and in 2009 he was knighted for services to education.

He has worked in Wales in a variety of capacities – advisor on Schools Challenge Cymru, Advocate for the PDG, board member on the development of the Leadership Academy and member of the Teachers Pay Review Body. More recently he carried out a review on the Education of Looked After Children.

Alasdair is currently Chair of London East Alternative Provision, a board member of Tower Hamlets Education Partnership and Chair of the New Visions for Education Group.

Leadership Unlocked is a series of professional learning webinars, that explore leadership in Wales and internationally. The webinars are designed for those in senior leadership roles from schools, the youth work sector and Post Compulsory Education & Training (PCET) sector and aims to support their thinking and practice.

This webinar delivers high quality and inspirational professional learning that is engaging, motivational and inclusive. The webinar will include an opportunity to discuss and share ideas in breakout rooms with leaders from across Wales.

Free, registration essential