Pam is a highly experienced K-12 education professional, internationally renowned author and keynote speaker with global recognition for her specialism in the development of Early Childhood Education and Care, international education, school review and accreditation, inspection, analytical due diligence and school start up projects in a variety of diverse locations including; Africa, SE Asia, USA, the Gulf region (including significant projects in North America, Saudi Arabia, Oman, the UAE and Qatar) .

She recently completed four years as Founding Director of Schools and Education for the NEOM Education, Research and Innovation Sector, leading education development and school start up in the new giga city of NEOM, Saudi Arabia. Pam operates at both strategic and executive level for a wide range of international school groups, businesses, and educational organisations. She is currently working on variety of high-net-worth education development projects, including the expansion of British schools into Saudi Arabia North and South America, UAE, West Africa, Vietnam, India, Japan, Singapore and Thailand. Her most recent project with Charterhouse School UK resulted in the opening of Charterhouse Lagos, Nigeria in September 2024. She recently completed successful work on a new development project with the Red Sea Global group, Saudi Arabia.  

Other previous Executive roles include international posts as; Director of Education for Dar Al Marefa Schools Dubai, Chief Academic Officer for Knightsbridge Schools International and Director for Quality Assurance and Professional Development for World Class Learning/British Schools of America (now part of the Nord Anglia Education Group) based in Houston, Texas. She held an advisory role to the Rashid and Latifa School Design Team Task Force in Dubai. Pam also holds positions on UK and International Education Boards (including the ETEC Accreditation Committee in Saudi Arabia) and a variety of international Ministry of Education Select Committees and ground-breaking international educational research groups.

She is a Founding and Advisory Board Member of the international Businesswomen in Education network, a member of the Worldwide Women Association and proud to be one of the founding members of Ladies Who LaunchED! a brand-new community of female business founders. Pam was honoured to be short-listed by the Lead 50/50 organisation as ‘Inspirational Woman of the Year, 2022’ and to be named as one of the 40 Outstanding Global Women 2023 by the ReLocate/Think Global organisation. Her most recent publication, the co-authored ‘International Schools: Navigating Leadership Culture and Context’ (Fulton Books) was released in January 2024. She is proud to be the Patron of the UK based ‘Hearts and Handovers’ Charity, that provides free, ‘pre-loved’ resources for families in and around London needing support for children from birth to six years.

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Outside of teaching James is a keen artist, enjoying painting and linocut printing. He has a son and daughter, both of whom are at Bedales, who together with his wife, an Anglican vicar, enjoy all the benefits of living amongst the South Downs. James is looking forward to getting to know the Amesbury community and sharing his experience of boarding education.