British educational standards, delivered overseas.
I help founders and investors open, run and improve schools that meet British expectations for teaching, safeguarding and governance.
A doctor by training, an operator by trade.
After working in clinical neurology in the UK, I moved into education leadership. I've spent the years since building and running education organisations across the UK and the Middle East. I co-founded British Grammar School Erbil and lead Step Up Edu, which supports schools using the Oxford International Curriculum.
I work in English, Sorani Kurdish and Arabic, so I'm as comfortable in a London boardroom as in a ministry office in Erbil.
What I can take off your hands
School launch and set-up
From feasibility and licensing through to opening day.
Operations management
Staffing, timetables, duty rotas and budgets, run day to day.
Curriculum implementation
Oxford International Curriculum and OxfordAQA, from Early Years to A-Level.
Staff training and onboarding
Induction programmes, curriculum training and ongoing CPD.
Governance and investment
Board structures, investor proposals and financial models.
Digital school systems
Attendance, pastoral tracking, grades and parent reports that staff will actually use.
How I work
Standards first
British benchmarks for teaching, assessment and safeguarding, adapted to local regulation.
Local fluency
I work with ministries, parents and staff in their own language.
Evidence-led
My medical and research background means decisions rest on data.
Built to last
Systems and people that keep running after I step back.
Every school I work with is grounded in British values: mutual respect, the rule of law, individual liberty and tolerance.
Track record
Selected work
A bilingual British-curriculum school in the Kurdistan Region. Enrolment grew by 300% in its second year, and the school is now in its third year of operation.
Attendance, pastoral reports and grades built on Google Workspace for Education.
Structured packages for schools adopting the Oxford International Curriculum.
Qualifications, training and roles
- MBChB
- MSc Clinical Neuroscience, University College London
- Level 7 Senior Leadership training (2024)
- PRINCE2 Foundation training (2024)
- Safeguarding for Governors training, The Safeguarding Alliance (2025)
- Peer-reviewed co-author, Brain (2021)
- Non-executive director of a UK cultural charity since 2016
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Last updated: October 2026.