Mark Anderson was appointed Chair of Council August 1 2026.
Mark Anderson has a portfolio career specialising in working with edtech starts-ups as an advisor and NED, and with larger education organisations as a consultant. He worked for Pearson plc in two stints, from 1984-1997 and 2007-2016. He was responsible for launching the Pearson Test of English, and as Managing Director UK (2014-16) oversaw Edexcel, BTEC and Pearson College. He was chair of BibliU (2019-21), chair of London Metropolitan University (2016-22) and an NED of Higher Education Partnerships (2017-22). He is currently chair of Macat, an NED at Enterprise Skills and an adviser to When in Culture (UK), Lynx Educate (Paris), Janison (Melbourne), LearningMate (Boston) and Materact (Madrid). He is a Quondam Fellow of Hughes Hall Cambridge and is the author of The Leadership Book (FT Publishing 2e 2013).