Philip is NCFE’s Chief Operating Officer and is responsible for operations, group-wide strategy and innovation, communications and partnerships, and the organisation’s transformation. NCFE is a leading educational charity, with business operations in Awarding, assessment and learning technologies and resources.

Philip has worked across all levels of the education, employment and skills systems, in the UK, Australia and South East Asia. The businesses and programmes he has established have developed national qualifications and training content, created pathways for school leavers into work and helped people upskill and transition later in their careers both in the UK and internationally.

Philip began his career as a teacher, working in several schools in Hackney as part of the Teach First programme. He then moved into PwC Consulting business, where he became a Director and worked in both the UK and Australia firms, before joining NCFE in 2020