Our Board of Trustees

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Liz Robinson, Chair

Liz Robinson is Chair of Trustees of the Fair Education Alliance. Liz brings more than two decades of experience in school leadership, collaboration, innovation and systems change. As a headteacher, trust leader and sector leader, she has championed an approach to education that supports the whole child, the whole family and the whole community. 

 Liz previously served as Headteacher at Surrey Square Primary School, where she helped redefine the school’s purpose through a values-led approach and led significant innovation in culture, practice and community engagement. Her work has consistently focused on the transformative role education can play, not only in children’s lives but in shaping stronger communities. 

 She brings expertise in leadership development and building capacity for change, including supporting educators and changemakers to lead in complex systems. This includes work to support leadership development across the sector, advancing innovation through initiatives such as the Big AI Project, and championing broader outcomes for children and young people through Enrichment for All. 

 Across her career, Liz has promoted collaboration as a key driver of systems change, bringing together practitioners, leaders and partners to share learning, challenge assumptions and improve outcomes for children and communities. She is a strong advocate for relational leadership and the power of collective action to address inequity.

Zulum Elumogo, Vice-Chair

Zulum Elumogo is the Managing Director of TC & Friends, an international design agency based in London, UK specialising in graphic design, branding and visual communications.

Previously Special Advisor at freuds communications, Zulum worked with clients such as Bolt, Comic Relief, Dior, Premier League and Vogue on their communications strategies and public presentation. 

A passionate advocate for the Arts and high quality education for all, Zulum is Vice Chair of the Fair Education Alliance and on the board of the Barbican Centre, Europe’s largest multi-arts venue.

In April 2024, Zulum was named in Forbes Europe’s ’30 under 30’ Class of 2024 for Media & Marketing. 

Anna Trethewey

Anna Trethewey is Chief Corporate Affairs and Strategy Officer at AQA, having joined AQA from Ofsted, where she was Deputy Director for Cross Remit Education Policy.

Her previous roles include Head of Strategy at Ofsted, Head of Change Management at Lift Schools and Executive Director at the Centre for Education and Youth. She was also a teacher and school leader in London and Norwich. 

Elijah Denning

Elijah is currently studying Education at the University of Cambridge, where he joined through the university’s Foundation Year programme—a pioneering widening participation initiative. His journey into higher education followed a non-traditional route, having been permanently excluded from school at the age of 13 and educated in alternative provision. This lived experience underpins Elijah’s deep commitment to equity in education and ensuring systems work for those most marginalised.

Before joining the Board of Trustees, Elijah spent two years on the Fair Education Alliance Youth Steering Group and a summer as a Data and Youth Engagement Intern, where he contributed to the Fair Education Youth Summits, attended a party conference, and helped shape the Alliance’s youth engagement practices.

Elijah has held advisory roles across the youth and education sector, including as a Youth Advisor at YoungMinds, a Youth Advisory Board Member at the Youth Endowment Fund, and Chair of the Careers & Enterprise Company Youth Advisory Group. 

Lamide Odanye

Lamide Odanye is the co-founder of LIVE (Learn, Inspire, Visualise, Elevate), a mentoring programme for students in Years 8-13 from low socioeconomic backgrounds. LIVE focuses on teaching young people soft transferable skills required for the professional environment and has the long term aim of reducing the rate of youth unemployment and increasing social mobility. LIVE has worked with over 250 young people and has received partnership contracts from about six companies, including KPMG, Penguin Random House and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Lamide has nearly ten years of volunteering experience and over five years advocating for youth employment and a ‘soft skills’ focused education system. She is a First Class Politics and Philosophy Graduate from the University of Essex and was named a Top 10 UK Rare Rising Star in 2019. She currently works at the Greater London Authority and aspires to change the world by influencing policies and rules on Education and Young people.

Nick Wright

Nick Wright is Vice-Chair of Social Impact and Philanthropy at UBS. He co-led UBS’s project to set up and sponsor The Bridge Academy Secondary school in Hackney, which opened in 2007, and is Chair of Governors. He has been a member of numerous taskforces, including for the Cabinet Office, Boards and Advisory Committees notably in the areas of Social Investment and Education. Under his guidance and leadership UBS developed a multi-award winning programme of Community Investment, alongside product and execution offerings which Nick has also supervised both within UBS and more widely.

He is the father of two, an ex-international gymnast, and has a History degree from Oxford University.

Stephen Twigg

Stephen is Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, supporting over 180 national and sub-national parliaments across the Commonwealth. Prior to this, Stephen was the Member of Parliament for Liverpool West Derby (2010–2019) and for Enfield Southgate (1997–2005). He held several senior roles in Parliament, including Minister for Schools, Shadow Education Secretary and Chair of the International Development Select Committee.

In 2020, he helped establish the International Parliamentary Network for Education to promote the right to education globally. In addition to his work championing education at international and national levels, Stephen has also led place-based approaches to education through his current role as Chair of the Dorset Education Board since 2022 and previously in the North West and in London where, as Minister, he helped set up the London Challenge.

Stephen attended Southgate Comprehensive School and then studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, and went on to become President of the National Union of Students. He began his public service as a local councillor in Islington. A lifelong advocate for educational opportunity, Stephen brings deep expertise in policy, advocacy and asset-based development to the Fair Education Alliance board.

Zoë Watters

Zoë Watters is a finance and infrastructure leader with over two decades’ experience helping public bodies and investors deliver sustainable, socially purposeful projects.

Zoë has lived and breathed social mobility which is why she is committed to widening access and creating inclusive cultures where everyone can thrive.

From March 2026, she will become an Equity Partner at Deloitte, advising public sector clients on social infrastructure and place-based investment schemes. Zoë was a former Trustee for a Veteran Care Village and has previously been a Magistrate and School Governor. She holds an MSc in Future Infrastructure, Climate Change and Sustainability from the University of Edinburgh and is a qualified accountant.