Meet the AGBIS Board
The elected and co-opted members of the Board are:
Charlotte Marten
Charlotte Marten
Charlotte Marten is a governor at North London Collegiate School, chairing the Education Committee. She is former Deputy Chair of Governors at Rugby School and former Chair of the Grammar School Heads' Association. Charlotte remains actively involved in education through her role as a director of the Inspire Education Trust, maintaining strong links with local schools.
Mike Gregson
Mike Gregson
Mike Gregson has a life-long interest in education and recently retired as Chair of The Edinburgh Academy, a co-educational day school with over 1,000 pupils aged between 2 and 18 years. He remains connected to the school as Chair of The Edinburgh Academy Foundation and The Eric H Stevenson Charitable Trust. He has also been a trustee of a number of charities and pension funds and is currently Chair of the RSNO Pension Scheme.
Diana Robinson
Diana Robinson
Diana Robinson is a chartered accountant by profession, and was Bursar/DFO and Clerk to Governors for three independent schools, from prep to all-through, single sex and co-ed, from 2004 until retirement from full time employment in 2022. Prior to its merger with the Mill Hill Education Group she served as governor on the Board of Westbrook Hay School for 9 years, including 2 years as Chair of the Finance Committee and for the last two years as Chair of the Board. She is currently Clerk to the Governing Body at Westminster on a part-time basis.
Monica Bhandari
Monica Bhandari
Monica is a governor at St Helen’s School, Northwood, Chairing the Enterprises Committee and Vice- Chair at Pinner High School, Chairing the Finance and Resources Committee. She has been Associate Professor of Taxation Law at UCL and is currently a Business Director at an SME.
Paul Dillon-Robinson
Paul Dillon-Robinson
Paul Dillon-Robinson is a chartered accountant who spent his career in public sector internal audit, both within the NHS and with the House of Commons. He currently combines non-executive roles with training and tutoring, as well as developing guidance on governance, risk and audit issues. Educated at Swanbourne House and Radley College, he was a governor at Hurstpierpoint College for 10 years and is now a trustee of Hurst Education Trust, a multi academy trust supported by Hurst and the Diocese of Chichester.
Married, with three grown up children and one grandchild, his wife is a learning support teacher at an independent school
Within AGBIS he chairs the Training & Membership Committee, is a member of the Finance Committee and carries out occasional reviews of governance.
John Edward
John Edward
John is the Head of Operations at the Scottish Council on Global Affairs. He is a Governor of Fettes College and a member of the Scottish Commission on School Reform. For 13 years he was Chief Executive of the Scottish Council of Independent Schools (SCIS), where he also sat on the Advisory Boards of the Scottish Teachers’ Pension Scheme and the Scottish Qualifications Authority. He was a commissioner on The Commission on the Future for Independent Schools from 2023 to 2025.
John was previously Head of the European Parliament’s Office in Scotland and worked in Brussels for Scotland House and the European Policy Centre. He was Chief Campaign Spokesman for Scotland Stronger in Europe in 2016.
Caroline Jordan
Caroline Jordan
Caroline Jordan joined Headington School, Oxford, as Headmistress in September 2011, having previously been Headmistress of St George's School, Ascot, for six years.
Caroline was educated at St Helen and St Katharine School, Abingdon, and read Geology at St Edmund’s Hall, Oxford. After a period working in the commercial sector, she completed her PGCE (Science) at the University of Manchester. She joined Wycombe Abbey as a NQT teaching Physics and Chemistry. Four years later she became Housemistress in Cloister and went onto be Head of Sixth Form and Deputy Senior Housemistress before becoming Headmistress at St George’s, prior to Headington.
Involved in education at both a regional and national level, Caroline is a passionate advocate of single sex education and was Chairman of the Girls’ School Association Education Committee and sat on the GSA/HMC Universities Committee for 6 years. She was a board member of the Independent Schools Examinations Board and was also an ISI inspector. Caroline was President of the Girls’ Schools Association in 2016 and was Vice-Chair of the Independent Schools’ Council between 2017-2020. She currently sits on the AGBIS Board.
Headington School has recently merged with Rye St Antony, and Caroline is now Head of Headington Rye Oxford a School of over 1100 pupils.
David Stanton
David Stanton
David is a Governor at Westminster School, Westminster Under School and Westminster Abbey Choir School. He is also Sub Dean and Canon Treasurer at Westminster Abbey with oversight for all financial affairs. He is appointed by the Prime Minister to the Senior Salaries Review Body, the Minister of Health to the Human Tissue Authority and the Master & Fellows at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge to their Remuneration Committee. He is currently conducting a major Review into Senior Judicial Salaries. He was previously Church Commissioner for England, Non-Executive at the Wales Audit Office, Senior Non-Executive at the Church of England Pensions Board, and for most of the last decade, Senior Independent Member of Oxford University Research Ethics Committee. He is a Distinguished Friend of Oxford University, Honorary Fellow of Westminster University and a past expert member of the Public Service Honours Committee (Cabinet Office).
Rosie Allen: City of London School
Tom Beardmore-Gray: Bradfield College
Meg Gardiner Boiling: Homefield Prep School
Christine Keunen: Stonyhurst College
Irfan Latif: Royal Hospital School
Barney Northover: Partner at VWV
Sophie Rees: Thomas's London Day Schools
AGBIS Board
AGBIS is a registered charity (No 1108756) and company (No 0521716) limited by guarantee governed by a Board which meets at least once every school term. Board members are nominated by school governing bodies and serve initially for a three year period. The Board is advised by three committees: Training and Membership, Nominations & Governance and Finance. The Board is entrusted with the management of the Association and has absolute discretion in applying the funds in furtherance of the objects of the Association.
As one of seven Associations which are members of the Independent Schools Council (ISC), AGBIS has two seats on the ISC Board and a similar level of membership on relevant ISC committees. The Chief Executive and Director of Learning and Professional Development also meet informally with their opposite numbers in the ISC Associations.