Speakers

Felicity Gillespie is the Chief Executive of Kindred Squared, a UK private foundation focused on improving the quality of early childhood development. Kindred Squared funds research and runs programmes in collaboration with a wide range of UK public, private and third sector organisations.

Felicity has been an Advisor to the UK Department for Education since 2011 and the lead specialist Academy Governance Advisor for six years. She is on the board of Ofsted - the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills, responsible for the inspection of services providing education and skills for learners of all ages. Ofsted also inspects and regulates services that care for children and young people.

Previous roles include establishing The National Teaching Awards and the Broadcast Training and Skills Regulator. As the education and training advisor at the Confederation of British Industry, she represented the UK on EU education and training programme boards.

A former Associate of the UK Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and of the National College of School Leadership, Felicity has served as a National judge of the UK National Training Awards on many occasions and speaks on the British education system at conferences and seminars in the USA, Middle East, Asia and UK.