Chairs' and Vice Chairs' Networking Group

Alex Mitchell

Head of AGBIS International and Consultancy

Alex Mitchell's career spans 38 years in the maintained and, predominantly, independent sectors including day, boarding, single sex, co-ed, tied and standalone schools. After many years as a Director of Music in several schools, including Haberdashers' Girls' School in Elstree and the Loughborough Foundation Schools in the East Midlands, he became Headmaster of Holmwood House School in Colchester, Essex in 2009 for 12 years. During that time, Alex was Chairman of the IAPS East Anglia district. Since 2002, Alex built up 24 years' experience as an ISI inspector and, since 2019, has been a Reporting Inspector for UK and international inspections. Until recently, Alex was a governor of an independent school in Hertfordshire and is currently a governor of a British international boarding school in Africa. Having undertaken reviews of governance, he now leads the AGBIS International programme as well as coordinating consultancy services for both UK and international member schools.