Alex Crossman

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About Alex Crossman

Alexander Crossman ('he'/'him') is Headmaster of The London Academy of Excellence, the highest ranked sixth form provider in England offering a full A Level curriculum. Alex’s career in education has included being a Deputy Head at a sponsored academy in Brixton, the founding Head of one of London’s most successful free schools and the Chief Executive of an education consulting firm based in the Middle East but operating worldwide. Teaching is Alex’s first calling but his second career. Previously, he was a managing director with global responsibility for strategy at one of the world’s leading investment banks. Alex graduated with a double first class honours degree from the University of Oxford and with distinguished higher degrees from the London School of Economics & Political Science and the UCL Institute of Education. Alex was born, grew up and went to school in one of the poorest parts of Birmingham. He is married with two grown-up sons. Alex has helped to train and mentor school leaders for both Ambition School Leadership and the New Schools Network. He is a trustee of the Reach South multi-academy trust and an advisory board member at the Centre for Innovation and Research in Learning (CIRL) at Eton College. Alex is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and The Chartered College of Teaching. Business Chemistry Profile: Pioneer (‘Yellow Red’) Myers Briggs Type Indicator: ESTP (‘The Architect’)