David Woodhead

Surname: WOODHEAD
Style: David Woodhead
Recreations: family, opera, classical music, books, German and Austrian history, travel

Career: journalist: educn corr Cambridge Evening News 1965-68, Sunday Telegraph 1968-75; chief press offr ILEA 1978-84 (press offr 1975-78), hon press offr London Schs Symphony Orch 1975-84, memb NW Herts Community Health Cncl 1976-79; nat dir Ind Schools Cncl Info Serv (formerly ISIS) 1985-2004; dep gen sec Ind Schs Cncl 1998-2004; public affrs and educnl PR conslt 2004-; conslt Cherwell Schs Gp 2010-; fndr tstee Nat Youth Strings Acad 1995-; memb Youthbridge Ctee Br-German Assoc 2008-; tstee: The Dresden Tst (jt vice-chm 2011-, fndr Dresden Scholars' Scheme 2001), Univ of Leicester 2000- (memb Cncl 2000-09, life memb Ct, univ schs and colls liaison conslt 2005-), Advsy Devpt Bd The Rudolf Kempe Soc for Young Musicians 2000- (also tstee), Advsy Bd Global Educn Mgmnt Systems Ltd 2004-06 (special advsr 2007-09); govr: Battle Abbey Sch 1988-91, St John's Sch Leatherhead 1994-2011 (vice-chm 2006-, chm Educn Ctee 2001-10), Feltonfleet Prep Sch Cobham 1998-2001, City of London Sch for Girls 2002-06, Purcell Sch of Music 2004-; hon govr Wakefield GS Fndn 2004-09; led UK representation at first int conf on private educn in China Beijing 1999; Medal of Honour Soc for Reconstruction of the Dresden Frauenkirche 2007; FRSA 1990

Books and Publications: Choosing Your Independent School (ed, annually 1985-99), Good Communications Guide (1989), The ISC Guide to Accredited Independent Schools (ed, annually 2000-04), Education in the UK (contrib, 2002); numerous articles