John McIntosh

John McIntosh is a former Headmaster of The London Oratory School (1977–2007) and was an additional member of Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC) from 1985 to 2007. He has a particular interest in education policy and has been actively involved in policy development and several think tanks concerned with education policy throughout his career. He was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the College of Preceptors 1998 and appointed a Fellow of the College of Teaching in 2016.He has been an external adviser to the Department for Education on Free Schools since 2011, he was the Chairman of the Commission on Assessment Without Levels, which published its report in September 2015 and is a member of the Panel of Experts on Assessment.He has been a governor of three maintained and three independent schools, at one of which he served for nine years as chair of governors, and he has been a member of interim executive boards (IEB) for three schools. He is presently the honorary president of a multi academy trust and a trustee of another.John served as a member of the Health Education Council from 1985 to 1988 and the National Curriculum Council from 1990 to 1993. He was a member of the Teachers Standards Review, the Teaching Agency advisory group, and the National College for School Leadership advisory board, and the National Curriculum Review in 2011-13.From 2009–2011 he was education adviser to the Leader of Hammersmith