After graduating with a degree in Economics, Jane enjoyed a successful career in business before entering the teaching profession in 2000. From 2010-2024 she held senior leadership positions in schools including two Headships of selective schools and she was also the founding CEO of the Girls’ Learning Trust, growing the multi-academy trust to three schools during her tenure.

Jane was also a governor at Royal Russell School in Croydon from 2015-2019, was joint-President of the Association of State Girls’ Schools from 2017-2019 and has also served on the Girls’ School Association Education Committee from 2022-2024.

Since retiring from headship in August 2024, Jane holds several roles alongside her position at Tiffin. These include being a member of the Education Committee of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, Chair of the Resources Committee at Sutton Tuition and Reintegration Service (STARS) and a trustee of the Russell School Trust.

I previously served as a Foundation governor and Chair of the Education Committee.  I am delighted to be able to contribute to the continued progress and success of the school as a Member of the Tiffin School Academy Trust.

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Educated at Tiffin (1967 to 1974 – Deputy Head Boy, Captain of Rugby and Kingsley Montgomery House) and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford reading physics. The education I received at the School was a hugely positive influence in my life. My career was spent in the financial sector in London and 20 years abroad in Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and the USA working for a major US Bank and as co-founder and equity partner of a New York based structured asset finance firm. I joined the Governing Board in 2009 and am continually seeking to help enhance the School’s ability to provide both an outstanding academic education and a fantastic extra-curricular experience to all its students. I concurrently serve as Chair of the Governing Board and Chair of The Tiffin School Foundation, the registered charity which owns the School land in Kingston and the School playing fields at Grists and to which parental and alumni donations are received. I am the Chair of the Admissions Committee and a member of the Resources Committee, Education Committee, and Head’s Performance Review Group.

There has been tremendous change at the School. In strategic matters, as Chair, I worked with other governors on the academy conversion in 2011, the appointments of a new Headteacher in both 2014 and 2022, the change to a mixed 6th form in 2019 and more recently on securing the strategic future of Grist’s. I have been involved in the successful funding and construction of major site improvements including our new classroom, kitchen, and dining facility in 2018, the new gym extension in 2020, the 2022 LRC infill project and the MUGA2 project. It is an absolute privilege to serve as a governor of this great School.

Phil Phillips
Chair of Governors: Tiffin School
Chair: The Tiffin School Foundation

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A well-rounded education which challenges the individual is essential in today’s competitive work environment, whatever path they choose to follow in the future. Both my son and daughter were fortunate to attend Tiffin School and Tiffin Girls School respectively. They benefitted from a great all-round education including many extra-curricular activities. I believe that selective education has an important role to play in shaping the future of our young adults. Educated in Cardigan in West Wales, I am an economics graduate of the University of Bristol and a chartered accountant. I retired after a career in various finance and operational roles latterly with a multinational financial services company. I have lived in Esher for the last 40 years. My goal is for Tiffin to continue to be outstanding in every way and to be well positioned to meet the changes that the future will bring.

I am Co Vice Chair of the Governing Board, Chair of the Resources Committee, Chair of the Pay Committee and Chair of the Head’s Performance Review Group.

I was born and educated in Surbiton and now live in Teddington with my husband Simon. I graduated in law and qualified as a solicitor working in the City where I practised commercial litigation for 11 years. I now focus on my role as a school governor and a volunteer on the Cruse Bereavement Helpline. I have three sons who all attended Tiffin School from Year 7. I have seen first-hand how the excellent academic education and exceptionally wide-ranging extracurricular opportunities Tiffin provides benefitted my sons and their peers. I am committed to supporting Tiffin to continue to maintain these high standards for future generations of students. I have considerable experience as a school governor, having been a Parent Governor at the local infant and junior schools my sons attended. I was appointed a Parent Governor at Tiffin in 2013 and I am now a Foundation Governor.

I am a member of the Education Committee and I hold the following Link Governor roles: Oversight of Safeguarding, Looked After Children, Filtering & Monitoring, Allergy Safety, SEND. I am delighted to be able to continue to contribute to the continued success of Tiffin School.

Both my sons attended the school and for several years I was a member of the TPA. Subsequently, I became a Parent Governor and then a Foundation Governor. I am a chartered accountant and have extensive experience in contracts and procurement in the public sector. In addition, I was an external examiner and distance learning tutor at Durham University Business School for over 20 years. In 2009 I was awarded an MBE for services to equality and diversity. I have always strongly supported the school ethos and have enjoyed my long association with the governing board. I have been closely involved with the building of the Sports Hall and its recent extension, and the Learning Resources Centre and kitchen and dining facilities.

I am a member of the Resources Committee, the Pay Committee and the Head’s Performance Review Group. I am also a Link Governor for Health & Safety.

Tiffin changed my life. It gave the son of an immigrant single mother a fair shot of success by cultivating curiosity and instilling confidence from an early age. I made my best friends for life at Tiffin. I am currently a senior director at Flagship Pioneering, the $3B+ venture capital fund most known for starting Moderna. I am responsible for coordinating the development, launch, and management of Flagship’s efforts to originate and grow a new generation of companies aimed at pre-empting, predicting, and preventing novel pathogens and chronic diseases.

Before joining Flagship, I served as an Innovation Fellow at Imperial College’s Institute of Global Health Innovation (2019 to 2021) and as an advisor to Lord Darzi. There I co-led the programme management office for REACT, one of the largest COVID-19 surveillance programmes in the UK, enabling the deployment of over 3 million tests to inform UK government policy. Earlier I led the analytics for Lord Darzi’s 2018 review of health and care, which underpinned the case for an additional £20bn a year of NHS funding. I spent my early career as an analyst at Oliver Wyman, a management consulting firm, and at HgCapital, a European private equity firm. I graduated from Harvard College with an AB in cognitive science (2001 to 2005).

I hope that by serving as a governor I can support the school in its mission to become a truly world class educational institution, and that I can help today’s exceptional students take giant leaps in the future. I am a longstanding Surbiton resident, the lucky husband of Shanika and the proud father of two young children.

I am a member of the Resources Committee, a member of the Admissions Committee and Link Governor for Disadvantaged Students.

I have known Kingston as a child, a student (at the then polytechnic) and for the last 40 or so years as a resident. I have four sons who have all attended Tiffin, the youngest in the 6th form only, and have seen the school develop from an excellent grammar school to a leading school in teaching and learning. I studied mechanical engineering and worked for 14 years in research and development and project work. I then retrained as a teacher and taught in inner London schools for 27 years. With my sons following different interests throughout their school careers, I took the role as coordinator for Tiffin car boot sales for many years. This enabled me to help all the various groups in which my sons were involved and support the extracurricular activities that make Tiffin the school it is. I became a Parent Governor in 1994 and I am now a Foundation Governor.

I am a member of the Education Committee and the Admissions Committee.

As CEO of a growing multi academy trust, I am passionate about ensuring every young person achieves excellent outcomes and that they develop into ambitious, responsible and fulfilled adults with an accumulation of happy lifelong memories created at school.

I grew up in Oxfordshire and was educated at The Cherwell School in Oxford, a co-educational state school.  I went on to obtain a Geography degree from Birmingham University where I also completed my PGCE. Later, I was able to complete my Masters in Education at St Mary’s University College.

My teaching career started at Therfield School, Surrey, in 1998 and after holding several leadership and headship posts throughout the years at different institutions within the South-East, I became headteacher at Guildford County School in 2013, a school which was granted an Outstanding status by Ofsted in 2017, and again in 2023.

In 2018, I founded Athena Schools Trust comprising 5 schools and then went on to lead a merger with another Guildford based trust, GEP Academies comprising 7 schools, resulting in the formation of Learning Partners Academy Trust in 2021. Our trust continues to grow, now with 17 schools, and others in the pipeline to join, including a 16-19 Maths School.  I firmly believe that collaboration is key to success, and that building a community of people working together and supporting each other leads to a strong, comprehensive and impactful support package for everyone involved.

I live locally and am delighted to be given the opportunity to support this great community-based school which has such a positive influence on future generations.

I am a member of the Education Committee, the Pay Committee, and the Head’s Performance Review Group. I am also a Link Governor for Staff Wellbeing.

I am an experienced teacher and headteacher, consultant and school governor, with over 25 years of experience in a range of challenging schools in London. I have been teaching since 1992, having studied a BEd Degree at Middlesex University. I have previously served as a school governor as a teacher, parent and as a headteacher.

Since 2021, I have been working as an independent education consultant, with schools and academy trusts across the country, from nursery to sixth form, including special schools. I provide schools with support in developing leadership, inspection preparation and curriculum development. I am also a School Improvement Partner for a number of the schools that I work with.

I am Chair of the Education Committee.

As a mother to three boys and proud Tiffin parent, I am deeply invested in the education and development of young minds. From a personal perspective, I have seen the value and power of education. My parents emigrated from Hong Kong to work in the NHS and made great sacrifices to ensure my sister and I received the best education available.

Since qualifying as a solicitor, I have worked on complex commercial disputes as a litigator and author of legal guidance. I am currently Senior Counsel in the Dispute Resolution team at Farrer & Co. I am based in Surbiton where I live with my husband, sons and two cats.

As a governor, I am pleased to bring my experience as both a parent and lawyer to support the continued success of the school.

I am a member of the Resources Committee, and Link Governor for Safeguarding and Health & Safety.

Dr Baljit K. Thatti is an experienced academic leader and higher education educator, bringing strong strategic insight and a deep commitment to widening participation. As a first-generation entrant to higher education, she holds a degree in Pharmaceutical Science and a PhD in Materials Chemistry and is a strong advocate for creating meaningful educational opportunities for all.

In her role as Head of the Department of Chemical & Pharmaceutical Sciences and Associate Professor at Kingston University, Dr Thatti has extensive experience in academic leadership, curriculum development and oversight, quality assurance, and the mentoring of both staff and students. She is passionate about supporting young people to realise their full potential, a commitment reflected in her delivery of high-profile keynote lectures for the Royal Institution and the Salters Institute.

Dr Thatti is well placed to offer constructive challenge, professional expertise, and a strong values-driven perspective to a governing body, contributing to the promotion of high standards, inclusivity, and student wellbeing.

Dr Thatti is a member of the Education Committee and the Admissions Committee, and a Link Governor for Safeguarding, Careers, and Filtering & Monitoring.

I am passionate about education and a firm advocate of grammar schools.  I attended a Newstead Wood School, a grammar school for girls in Bromley and went on to read Geography at Cambridge.

My first career was in central government where I worked in what was then HM Customs & Excise.  After working across a number of tax regimes, I ended my career as a senior tax specialist leading on the budget delivery of alcohol duties.  Best moment?  Delivering a tax relief for small brewers which has led to the massive growth in micro-breweries across the country!

After many enjoyable but exhausting years in Whitehall and having been a school governor at my local primary school, I turned my attention to educational governance, setting up my own consultancy.  I worked with academies and multi academy trusts, reviewing their governance systems and processes and working with them to maximise their effectiveness.

I also spent some years as the governance professional at Tiffin, so although I live in Kent, I am very familiar with the school and its communities.

I am an experienced school governor and have been on the board of both primary and secondary schools, have served as a trustee of primary, secondary and mixed phase multi academy trusts, and have been chair of a multi-academy trust.  I am looking forward to bringing my experience to Tiffin and contributing to the success of this great school.

I am a member of the Admissions Committee and the Education Committee.

Having grown up in New Malden, I attended Tiffin between 1982 and 1988 and then went on to Cambridge to study Engineering Science, specialising in manufacturing engineering and management. On leaving Cambridge, I moved into management consultancy working in a wide range of sectors, on topics ranging across commercial strategy, mergers and acquisitions, financial planning, and turnaround. Along the way I have founded a data analytics business staffed across three continents and been involved in the establishment of a California based AI infrastructure business.  I am now working as an independent business advisor. I have been based in Twickenham for the last 25 years and have two Tiffinian sons, the younger one is currently at Tiffin. I am a firm believer that the excellent education, co-curricular activities, and independence that Tiffin grants to its pupils is the foundation for great people, whatever career path they choose. I feel lucky that I have benefitted from Tiffin and that my sons have been able to too. As Governor I am therefore committed to upholding this ethos for present and future pupils.

I am Co Vice-Chair of the Governing Board, Vice-Chair of the Resources Committee, a member of the Pay Committee and Link Governor for Trips.

I was educated at Bath High School for Girls GDST, before reading Medicine at Nottingham University. I then moved to the London area in 1999, and have specialised in Clinical Microbiology, with a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from Imperial College, London. I am a fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Pathologists and work as a full-time clinical academic NHS Consultant. I am the proud parent of a Tiffin pupil and have been impressed by the huge range and quality of academic and co-curricular opportunities available to him at Tiffin. I strongly believe that education is the key to success in life and that as well as academic excellence, access to additional sporting and creative arts opportunities helps nurture well rounded individuals. You’ll regularly find me in the audience at school concerts or supporting my son at sporting events, and supporting the TPA in a variety of activities.

I am a member of the Education Committee and a Link Governor for Safeguarding, SEND, and Allergy Safety.