Professor Toby Salt was the Chief Executive of Ormiston Academies Trust, a group of over 42 schools, where the team doubled the number of schools and raised education standards. Toby has also recently retired from being the CEO of the AQA. AQA is the largest exam board in the UK with several subsidiaries and an international exam board. He has previously worked as director of the UK government’s Department for Education’s Innovation Unit. An experienced headteacher of schools Toby was also a founding director and Deputy CEO of the government’s National College for School Leadership. This trained around 20,000 school leaders a year and Toby’s teams established Government programmes that still exist today such as Teaching schools and National Leaders of Education. Toby is now a senior advisor and non-executive to a number of organisations such as AQA; Zen Educate; Thomas’s School group and is chair of the Teaching Awards and CATS global Schools. He is a member of LEAD multi Academy Trust and Chair of the Academy Council for AET’s Ryde Academy.
