Michael Barber (educationist)

rdf:langString Michael Barber (educationist)

rdf:langString Michael Barber

rdf:langString Michael Barber

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rdf:langString Sir Michael Barber, 2017

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rdf:langString Founder and chairman of Delivery Associates

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rdf:langString Chancellor of the University of Exeter

rdf:langString Chairman of Somerset County Cricket Club

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rdf:langString Sir Michael Bayldon Barber (born 24 November 1955) is a British educationist, author and global expert on implementation of large-scale system change, education systems and education reform, and was knighted in 2005 for his contributions to improving government. He is the founder and chairman of Delivery Associates, a global advisory firm focussed on working with governments and other public and social impact organisations to help deliver improved outcomes for people around the world. Barber has worked for over 20 years in education, government reform and improvement. During that time, he has advised governments in over 60 countries on issues of public policy and delivery. He was the founder and first head of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit under Prime Minister Tony Blair, and later served as Chief Education Advisor at Pearson, and as a partner at McKinsey, where he was head of the global education practice. He served as Co-Chair of Boston Consulting Group's not-for-profit foundation, Centre for Public Impact and has been a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He was appointed as the first ever Chair of the Office for Students (OfS) – the new regulator for Higher Education in the UK established in 2018 - until he stepped down in March 2021. Barber published How to Run a Government: So that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don’t go Crazy in 2015 and his latest book Accomplishment - How to achieve ambitious and challenging things was published by Penguin in 2021. In 2021, he was asked by the UK Prime Minister and Cabinet Secretary to conduct a rapid review of government delivery to ensure it remains focused, effective and efficient in the rebuild after COVID-19. In January 2022, Barber was appointed Chancellor of the University of Exeter. In April 2022, Barber was announced as the new chairman of Somerset County Cricket Club.