Kirit Modi Assistant Director (Education Strategy and Management Support) – CEA@Islington Kirit Modi was appointed to the Council by the public appointment process in September 2005. He sits on the Executive Committee.

Kirit has been working in education for over 30 years and is now an Education Adviser. Until March 2008 he was the Assistant Director of Education in Islington. He started as a mathematics teacher, worked in two secondary schools in Leicestershire and Bedfordshire for ten years, and was Head of Department at both schools.

He then moved to Bedfordshire LEA, initially as the Co-ordinator for Multicultural Education and then as a Senior Education Officer responsible for Strategic Planning and Policy. In 1997 he became Assistant Director of Education in Luton, where he helped set up a new unitary authority. In Islington, he helped turn around a failing LEA. Since then, he has led Islington’s BSF and the Primary Capital programmes by developing an approach of transforming education through investment.

He is currently supporting Central Bedfordshire in establishing a new unitary authority from April 2009 and working with CfBT in supporting local authorities and schools in managing change through the BSF programme. He is a Governor of Canons High School in Harrow and Associate Governor of Krishna - Avanti Primary School, the first Hindu VA School in the country. He is a Committee member of the Lister Kidney Foundation.

Kirit’s main interests are transforming education, managing change and tackling underachievement. He has a passion for developing strategies for making equality a reality in children’s services.

Declaration of interests

a) Posts held in the course of full and part time employment, self employment or practice, including partnerships and directorships.

• Self employed Education Consultant.  Currently working for CfBT Education Trust in supporting Building Schools for the Future in different authorities and for Central Bedfordshire in helping establish a new unitary authority from April 2009

b) Any unpaid office held in a professional or public body, including those which are associated with education. Offices include posts such as President, Chair, Chief Executive, Treasurer, Council Member or Secretary.

• Member of the Resources and Sustainability Committee of the Association of Directors of Childrens Services (ADCS)

c) Membership of professional bodies and trade or other associations which is unpaid, either educational or non-educational.

• Member of ADCS and Union

d) Members must provide details of any connection, or relation, they may have with any body which supplies goods or services too, or is involved in any other commercial transaction with the General Teaching Council for England.

• I worked for Cambridge Education Ltd until 31 March 2008.  I am not aware of all the companies and others who provide services to the GTC

e) Consultancies, directorships, management or advisory position in an organisation which might be affected by regulatory or commercial decisions taken by the Council.

• Governor of Canons High School in Harrow
• Associate Governor of Krishna – Avanti School in Harrow

g) Family interest: Please list any interest of yourself, your partner or close family members that might be considered relevant to your position on the Council I in the business dealings of the GTC.

• My wife is Headteacher of Chater Infant School in Watford, Herts

h) Any other interests

• Committee member of Lister Kidney Foundation, Lister Hospital