Brett Wigdortz, OBE

Founder and CEO, Teach First

Brett Wigdortz founded Teach First in 2002 with the aim to address educational inequality by placing high-flying graduates in schools, providing them with two years of teacher training ‘on the job’. Participants obtain Qualified Teacher Status after those two years, becoming Teach First ambassadors with the option to remain in education or address educational disadvantage elsewhere. Teach First is now the largest graduate recruiter in the country and has been named second in the Times’s Top 100 Graduate Recruiters for the last two years. Wigdortz, born in New Jersey, was working in London for management consultancy McKinsey & Company when he devised the original business plan for the charity. In 2013, he was awarded an OBE for his services to education. 

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