Lord Nash
Biography
In July 2020, Lord Nash was appointed to the role of Government Lead Non-Executive Director, for a three-year term. Lord Nash is also a Cabinet Office Non-Executive Director.
He became a life peer as Baron Nash on 21 January 2013.
Additional Information and Previous Roles
Lord Nash has had a varied career, with extensive experience in both the public and private sector. He served for over four years as the Academies and Free Schools Minister and spearheaded the Academy Ambassador programme, which has now recruited over 1,500 volunteers with business backgrounds to improve the governance and financial controls of academy schools. He worked in venture capital for 30 years before stepping into education, having created his own firm, Sovereign Capital, in 1988. He is a former Chair of the British Venture Capital Association.
In 2005 he set up Future, a charity designed to support young people by working with other small charities and sponsoring academies, through Future Academies, which sponsors 10 academies including Pimlico Academy and Millbank Primary Academy.
He was a non-executive board member at the Department for Education for over 2 years before being appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools.
Previous roles in government
- Government Lead Non-Executive
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the School System)
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools
Announcements
Subscriptions
- Back to school for thousands of pupils as new free schools open
- Applications open to create 1,600 new special free school places
- Government launches company to create more free schools
- Thousands of children back to school in 21st-century facilities
- Funding for new schools: guidance for local authorities
- Derby children celebrate opening of new school building
- New National Schools Commissioner appointed
- Thousands of pupils start 2016 in new buildings
- Suffolk academy celebrates move into new building
- Priority school building programme: rugby star reopens school