Sir Michael Barber

Sir Michael Barber joined McKinsey in 2005 as the expert partner in its Global Public Sector Practice, working on major transformations of public services, especially education, in the USA, UK and other countries. He is co-author of the international benchmarking study “How the World’s Best Performing School Systems Come Out on Top.”

Previously, as Chief Advisor on Delivery to Prime Minister Tony Blair, he was responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Prime Minister’s priority programmes in health, education, transport, policing, the criminal justice system and asylum/immigration. Between 1997 and 2001, he was Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for Education on School Standards and prior to that was a Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Sir Michael Barber delivered The College of Teachers' biennial lecture entitled 'The Prospects for global education reform'. The lecture can be viewed in full by accessing The College of Teachers' iTunesU account by clicking on the link to the right on this page.