Ron Glatter

Ron Glatter is Emeritus Professor of Educational Administration and Management at the U.K.’s Open University, where he was a Professor for many years. Before that he was Reader in Educational Administration at the Institute of Education, University of London. He was the founding Secretary of what is now called the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society (BELMAS), later became its national Chair and is now an Honorary Vice-President. He was given the BELMAS Distinguished Service Award in 2007.

He has been involved in a variety of international activities. For example in the 1980s he was UK Co-ordinator of the OECD’s International School Improvement Project and in 2007 he was the opening keynote speaker at the European Union Presidency Conference on ‘Schools facing up to new challenges’ in Lisbon. He is a trustee of the Research and Information on State Education Trust (RISE) and the Public Law Project (PLP) and a member of the New Visions for Education Group. Until recently he was a member of Council of the Institute of Education, University of London (2004-12) and a trustee of the Advisory Centre for Education (2005-12). He has been a governor of two secondary schools (one as Chair), a primary school, a college of further education and three higher education institutions. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.