EdSafe
Background
Education context
My professional background is rooted in education, with more than twenty years’ experience working inside schools. I have taught across a range of disciplines including IT, Business, and Digital Design, alongside curriculum development and sustained engagement with leadership teams on operational and strategic decisions.
My teaching experience spans multiple education systems and contexts. These include work in the UK, Madagascar, Korea, and Vietnam, and across programmes from BTEC, IGCSE and A-Level, to the most recent years in IB (MYP and DP).
This breadth matters, as governance decisions in education are shaped not only by regulation, but by institutional context, culture, safeguarding responsibilities, wellbeing considerations, and parental trust.
Governance and decision risk
Alongside my work in education, my professional focus has increasingly centred on governance questions arising from data protection, privacy, and the use of digital and AI-enabled systems in schools.
These are rarely abstract compliance issues; they arise where educational practice, technology, and accountability intersect, often at moments where leadership decisions carry consequence and cannot be deferred or absorbed into routine process.
My work in this space focuses on decision risk rather than technical risk: supporting leadership teams to understand what is being decided, where accountability sits, and how decisions may later be scrutinised by boards, parents, inspectors, or regulators.
This perspective recognises that governance failure in schools is more often the result of unclear judgement than missing policy — and that proportionate, defensible decision-making is the strongest protection leaders have when operating under scrutiny.
Formal professional grounding, including GRC certification through OCEG and professional membership of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, underpins my work.