Governance

Peter Mitchell

Chair of Governors and Education Director, Edge

Peter Mitchell is Edge’s Education Director, prior to which he was head teacher of two secondary schools over a period of 18 years. During that time he was seconded to lead a school out of special measures.

Lorna Caldicott

Principal

Lorna Caldicott is Principal Designate of The Milton Keynes Academy which is due to open in September 2009. Previously she has been Headteacher of two challenging urban schools – in High Wycombe and Oxford.

Caroline Raine

Clerk to the Governors and PA to the Principal

Dr Ann Limb

Higher Education Governor

Dr Ann Limb is a businesswoman and charity entrepreneur who has lived in Milton Keynes since 1986. After a 30 year full-time career in education, including fifteen years as Principal of Cambridge Regional and Milton Keynes Colleges, Ann now undertakes a number of Non Executive Director roles in the private and public sectors, including the position of Chair of Milton Keynes Partnership, the statutory body responsible for the long term growth and expansion of the city.

Lesley King

Governor, Milton Keynes Academy and Friend of Edge

Lesley King is a Director of The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, the secondary schools’ network aimed at supporting schools to raise achievement. She has nineteen years’ experience as a secondary school principal in two comprehensive schools and has lived in Milton Keynes, where her two sons were educated, for the last 16 years.

Brian Rabe

Co-opted Community Governor

Kevin Wilson

Local Authority Governor

Cllr Kevin Wilson is Milton Keynes Councils representative on the governing body. He is Chair of Woughton Parish Council and has been an elected local representative for over 30 years.

Uthel Laurent

Parent Governor

Mrs. Uthel Laurent (CE) (BSc) (PGCE) (MRes) is currently a full time PhD student in Educational Research. She has been in the teaching profession from 1990, taking breaks in between to complete her studies. She is a parent of two teenagers, both currently students at the Academy.

Nicolas Heslop

Trustee and Public Affairs Manager, Edge

Nicolas Heslop is Public Affairs Manager at Edge, joining the Foundation in February 2006.  He was previously Public Affairs Manager at SEMTA (Science, Engineering, Manufacturing Technologies Alliance), a Sector Skills Council.  He was a special adviser to the then education secretary, Baroness Shephard between1995 and 1997 and also has experience of working in the House of Commons.

Philip H Smith

Governor from the business community

Mr Smith is a former senior executive of a number of multi-national businesses, including major food retailer Asda Group Plc (now part of the Wal-Mart group) and National Power Plc, the UK’s largest electricity generating company.

A qualified accountant, Mr Smith has since retiring from National Power ten years ago, built a portfolio of non-executive director positions primarily in the renewable energy sector.

He is currently chairman of waste to energy company, Intercontinental Utilities Group Plc, tidal power company, Pulse Group Holdings Ltd, and the UK's Landfill Community Fund regulator (Entrust). He is also a director/stakeholder of other renewable energy businesses in the UK and overseas.

Mr Smith is retained as a mentor by LIFIC renewable technology incubator centre in Sheffield and was until recently the "Business Champion" of the Milton Keynes Enterprise Hub for start up businesses -- he is now a board member of the succeeding area Innovation and Growth Team.

A former chairman of Leicester City Football Club, Mr Smith is Pro Chancellor of De Montfort University in Leicester and a board member of the MK Higher Education Strategic Development Board.

He is also a key business figure in the development of the City of Milton Keynes, where he is a non executive director of the NHS Hospital Trust, chairman of the MK Business Leaders Partnership and a member of the MK Economic and Learning Partnership board. He has also recently been elected to the Bucks and MK Young Enterprise.

Mr Smith was until recently chairman of the Milton Keynes Branch of the Institute of Directors.