Governance

Gill began her career as a lobbyist on disability issues and then qualified as a lawyer in the city. Wanting to improve rather challenge law she joined the Government Legal service and has worked in several departments. Since September 2018, Gill has been Registrar at the University of Oxford.

Gill is a keen cyclist, walker and reader and spends a lot of time at the Lea Rowing Club watching her son row.

Donna is an Executive Director of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and has spent over 25 years in business management. 

Donna was previously with Chime plc and was Deputy MD of Good Relations. She specialised in the field of corporate and financial communications and marketing, having also worked in public affairs. Early major campaigns included the privatization of BP, Thames Water and AEA Technology. She advised the Club over a period of 14 years prior to joining the Board in 2006, Donna currently oversees the Club's Planning Consultations, Communications, Content and Marketing departments.

She graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1984 with a double Masters in Politics and English.

Donna is a trustee of the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation which undertakes Educational programmes. 

Monica Duncan is Principal at Duke’s Aldridge Academy. She joined the governing body after taking up headship in January 2009. She was a Headteacher in Lewisham for 8 years before coming to Haringey.

She has worked in education for most of her working life. Her teaching career began in Birmingham, then Coventry and Duke’s Aldridge Academy is her third London school.

Monica is passionate about education and enjoys the challenges of headship in urban schools. Her personal mantra is ‘where there is a will, there is a way’.

Minakshi is currently serving as vice-chair at Vale School. She is part of the school development committee and works intensively on the parent partnership programme with various therapy teams in Haringey.

Minakshi is also an ex science teacher who has worked in different boroughs across London in challenging set ups of different secondary schools including work with special needs children.

During her time at Vale School, she worked as a volunteer for the speech and language therapy department for two years and then joined the Governing Body in 2012 . Minaskshi's passion is to serve the community through education.

Tony Hartney is Headteacher at Gladesmore Community School.

Nicholas was educated at Whitgift School, Croydon. After contemplating a career as a professional singer, Mr Hewlett decided to complete a PGCE at the Institute of Education, leading him to take his first teaching job at Dulwich College. After three years, he was made Head of Geography at Magdalen College School, Oxford where, over the next five years, he was given additional responsibilities as a Housemaster, Contingent Commander of the CCF and Director of the annual Arts Festival.

In 2011, Mr Hewlett was employed as part of a team that set-up and led a flagship school on the island of Jeju, South Korea, under the banner and guidance of North London Collegiate School.

Kumar works for JP Morgan Corporate & Investment Bank and is a governor of Highgate School.

Adam Pettitt has been Head Master of Highgate School since 2006. He read French and German at New College, Oxford and began his teaching career at Eton College. He was subsequently Head of German at Oundle School and Head of Modern Languages at Abingdon School. In 1998 he was appointed as Second Master (Deputy Head) at Norwich School. Highgate School leads the Chrysalis Programme which has created partnerships with over twenty maintained schools in Haringey, Camden, Brent and Islington, providing a wide range of support.

John is Bursar of Highgate School. A Mathematics graduate, he served in the Royal Navy reaching the rank of Commander before his appointment to Highgate; during this time he also qualified as a barrister practising in criminal and international law.

John serves on the Finance Committee of the London Academy of Excellence in Stratford.

Paul is a television producer who ran his own successful production company. He combines a lifelong interest in architecture with film and education.

He is a trustee of two other charities involved with education. He has two daughters in secondary education.

Jane is Head at Mill Hill School, having worked as the Principal Deputy Head prior to August 2018. Jane studied Geography at Sheffield University and began her teaching career at Rowlinson School in Sheffield, before taking up a position in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for four years. Upon her return to the UK, she joined Henrietta Barnet School in North London and then moved to Whitefield, a school facing extra challenging circumstances, in 1999.

Jane joined Mill Hill School as the Deputy Head Pastoral in 2003. She is passionate about education and has a wealth of experience as a senior leader in secondary education.

Gary was educated at Bungay High School, Suffolk, and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he took a Double First in History before completing his doctorate on 'Foreign Policy and Political Culture in Later Eighteenth-Century France'.

He began his teaching career at Eton College, where he was Head of History and Master-in-College (Housemaster to the seventy King's Scholars). He moved on to become Under Master (Deputy Head) at Westminster School, before his appointment as Headmaster of Alleyn's School in 2010.

He is married to Natalie, a television producer and writer, enjoys the Arts, German, History, and supports Ipswich Town F.C.

Paul is the Director of Director of Student Recruitment, Admissions and Administration at TEDI-LONDON and formally Director of Admissions and Registry Services at King's College London.

After studying Economics at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge he proceeded to work for both the Admissions Offices in Cambridge and Oxford for the next decade where his responsibilities included Student Recruitment, Summer Schools, Widening Participation and Admissions Policy.

He was born in Barking and attended state schools and colleges in Havering, which drives his passion for all students to have the best start in life and the maximum number of opportunities to help them fulfil their potential.

He chaired the Education Committee at LAE Stratford and is keen on using this knowledge to support the development of LAE Tottenham.