Speakers

Adam has been Head of Highgate School, an independent co-educational day school in North London, since 2006. He read French and German at university, and before Highgate was Head of Modern Languages at Abingdon School and Deputy Head at Norwich School. He still teaches French or German in Year 9. He is particularly interested in how schools can continue to offer a liberal and humane education in the face of a changing political environment.  He has a well-established commitment to partnership teaching, as co-founder and Deputy Chair of Governors of London Academy of Excellence Tottenham, a thriving Sixth Form college of which Highgate is the lead educational sponsor.

Beyond work, Adam enjoys running marathons and is never far from a book; his latest obsession is cookery books, as much for their windows into daily life as their culinary tips. He is also a recent convert to inter-railing which he enjoys with his wife, Barbara, a fellow languages teacher and Head of House at Highgate, and their three children.