Alex Beard
Senior Director @ Teach For All
Alex started out as a teacher in a London school before joining Teach For All, a network of 120,000 educators working to transform education in 65 countries, where he leads the Global Institute’s work on systemic change and published The Missing Piece. He’s been fortunate to spend much of the past decade travelling the world in search of the future of learning, and has written about his experiences for the Guardian, Financial Times, and Wired.
Alex wrote and presented The Learning Revolution, a series on the future of education for BBC Radio 4 and is the author of the book Natural Born Learners, a guide to transforming learning in the twenty-first century. He is a Trustee of the Day One Trust, a contributor to the World Economic Forum’s Generation AI Initiative and a UK Champion for the Global Partnership for Education.

