Lionel is the first president of Reuben College, and Theme Lead for the AI & Machine Learning research cluster. He is a world-leading expert in the application of signal processing and machine learning to healthcare, with a strong track record in translation to clinical medicine. Lionel’s work has had a major impact on the identification of deterioration in acute care and on the management of chronic disease. Prior to that, Lionel had been closely involved in the development of some of the jet engine monitoring software at the core of the Rolls-Royce TotalCare® package. This won him the Rolls-Royce Chairman's Award for Technical Innovation in 2001 and the Sir Henry Royce High Value Patent Award in 2008. Lionel was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2000, and to a Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2013. He was the Head of the Department of Engineering Science (Dean of Engineering) from 2014 to 2019, and is now the Founding President of Reuben College, the University of Oxford’s newest college.  He was appointed as a non-party-political peer in the House of Lords in May 2024.

Helen founded and led Mathematics Mastery to empower and equip teachers to bring research insights to classroom practice. The programme has evidence of significant impact from an Education Endowment Foundation randomised controlled trial. It has built a national collaborative partnership of over 500 primary and secondary schools and underpins the Maths Hubs teaching for mastery approach. Helen has over a decade of experience as a maths teacher and leader. She holds a PhD in maths education, has advised government on curriculum and assessment and has written several books on evidence-informed teaching. She is Dean of Maths Excellence with Purposeful Ventures, Chair of the Expert Advisory Council at Ark Curriculum Plus, and a member of the Royal Society’s Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education.

David leads a number of projects at Purposeful Ventures and is the former founder and CEO of the Teacher Development Trust, the national charity for effective professional development. He Chaired the Department for Education’s Teachers’ Professional Development Expert Group and advised the Department on Early Career Teachers and school leadership. David taught maths and physics for ten years. He is a trustee of the Teaching Awards Trust, a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and an author of the book Unleashing Great Teaching. A former software engineer, he is involved in the development of ideas around using Artificial Intelligence for teacher development. David speaks and writes frequently for the education sector and national media and has had a number of radio and TV appearances around teaching, teacher development and LGBT issues.

Shahed is the CEO of New Vision Trust which has 5 large Primary schools in East London. A government funded Maths Hub and English Hub are also a part of the Trust setup. Shahed has been a longstanding Headteacher with a record of turning schools around. He has also been an experienced National Leader of Education, supporting struggling schools to improve. Shahed has been a member of key government Department of Education expert advisory groups for more than 20 years. These have included Mathematics, Phonics, Review of the National Curriculum, Assessment, Recruitment and Retention, English Hub Council, and the Royal Society ACME for primary maths. He has a degree in Mathematics.

Peter is a maths school improvement advisor for Lingfield Education Trust, which is a large and growing MAT in the North-East of England that has outstanding maths outcomes. He has worked in the primary sector for over twenty years, has taught all year groups in that period and has been a leader of maths since 2006. Over his career, he has seen maths teaching move from the National Strategies to the current mastery approach-based curriculum and has led teacher training on all of these different approaches. Due to his experience, he has found what works and doesn't through both success and failure, and is a firm believer that every single child can be successful at mathematics if the curriculum, pedagogy and time allowance are correct. He says that his family love sharing a maths problem for fun and he would love every child to see maths in that way – because they can do it! In his role as a maths advisor, his work covers school reviews and subsequent improvement work, curriculum design, CPD including coaching and demonstration teaching, ECT training, ITT tutoring and school improvement work through government grants for schools in need.

Camilla is Professor of Mathematical Cognition at Loughborough University and Director of the ESRC Centre for Early Mathematics Learning. Her research focuses on understanding how we learn and process mathematical ideas and what this means for mathematics education. This work has a particular focus on cognitive and environmental influences on numeracy development. Camilla completed a BSc at the University of Nottingham, MSc at the University of Reading and DPhil at the University of Oxford. Following this, she worked as a postdoc in the Psychology Department at Harvard University, and as a research fellow at the University of Nottingham before moving to Loughborough University in 2011. Camilla has held research fellowships from the British Academy and the Royal Society and has received awards from the Experimental Psychology Society, the British Psychological Society and the British Society for Research in Learning Mathematics.

Cathy is a professor in the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol and is Chair of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Sciences (HIMR). HIMR spans several academic partners in the UK and works with the mathematics community and Government to apply mathematical knowledge and skills to problems relating to national security as well as nurturing the mathematical sciences pipeline from schools through to high level research. Cathy received her PhD in mathematics in 1993 from the University of Liverpool. From 1992-2007 she held academic positions at the University of Nottingham and then Oxford Brookes University as well as visiting positions at the University of Auckland and the University of Bristol. In 2008 she took on a leadership position at Oxford Brookes University and has since been a Head of Department at the University of the West of England (2010-2018), Associate Dean for Research at the University of the West of England (2018-2022) and Academic Dean at Coventry University (2022-2023). Cathy is currently Vice President of the London Mathematical Society and Honorary Secretary (Education) of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. She is a member of the board of the Engineering Professors Council. Cathy is on the Executive Committee of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences, where she leads on Policy.

Asyia is the Global Education Policy Lead at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, leading on effective teaching and learning solution, edtech and AI, and the Foundation’s education work in India reaching 10m children. Asyia was a mathematics teacher and subject leader (top 2% value add in England) and teacher coach. In PwC, she led the Girls’ Education Challenge, a $1bn fund set up by the UK to support the education of 1.5 million girls in 17 countries. Asyia has worked in three UK Government departments: senior education adviser in DFID; project director in DfE; and senior Her Majesty’s Inspector in Ofsted. She inspected mathematics and teacher training. Asyia has a MSc in Applied Mathematics (Imperial College London) and a Doctorate in Education (University College London). She also has a PGCE in Leadership development and educational consulting. She was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s 2022 New Year’s Honours list for services to education, particularly girls’ education.

Matt is the Director of Design Engineering within Engineering Technology & Safety at Rolls Royce. This covers Systems Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Mechanical Integrity and Product Design. Design Engineering also supports the upgrades and modifications of existing engines and design of new engines for Civil Aerospace, Defence Aerospace and Power Systems. Matt is also a Director of Advanced Transmission Technologies, a joint venture with Liebherr Group in Germany which develops the manufacturing technology and delivers the constituent components for the UltraFan Power Gearbox (PGB). Prior to this role, Matt held positions in Civil Aerospace including Director of Design Engineering for Civil Aerospace, Quality Director for Civil Operations, Chief Engineer Trent 900, Head of Systems and Software in Control Systems and a number of engineering roles on the Trent XWB-84 and Trent XWB-97 during their development phase. Matt is a Chartered Engineer and joined Rolls-Royce in 2006. He holds a Masters in Engineering from Imperial College.

Angie co-founded Faculty: Europe’s leading applied AI firm and a world leader in AI safety and human-first AI deployment. Her professional journey has taken an unconventional path - doing research in physics, studying law and founding a tech startup in the early 2000s. Passionate about science, technology and skills development, she invests in and mentors startups in these fields and serves as an advisor and trustee for various charities.

Lisa is the Director of Education for Palladian Academy Trust; a role which demonstrates her extensive experience and expertise of over 20 years in systems leadership and school improvement across both primary and secondary phases of education. Before being Director of Education Lisa developed and led the Boolean Maths Hub and a led multiple national work groups in the Maths Hubs network during her time in role. Lisa’s value base revolves around the belief that all children and young people deserve an equitable and excellent education system that empowers them to reach their potential which we can achieve through collaborative professionalism, high quality teaching and learning, strong progressive curricula and authentic leadership. Lisa has worked with and supported schools and academies across all phases of education. She leads the facilitation of the new leadership NPQs and is a member of the Axiom Maths Academic Advisory Committee and the Teaching Maths for Social Justice Network (TMSJN) Advisory Group. Lisa has a BSc (hons) in Mathematics and having completed the NPQSL, the NPQEL and an MA Education, she is undertaking an EdD. She holds Fellowship status with the Chartered College of Teaching.

Nitarshan is a PhD candidate researching AI at the University of Cambridge. He was previously Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology, where he co-founded the AI Safety Institute and co-created the AI Safety Summit and UK supercomputing programme. He previously did AI research at Mila in Montréal, and worked as a software engineer in San Francisco.

CEO and Founder of Get Further charity, Sarah, began her career teaching maths, seeing first-hand the difference that gaining GCSE maths and English can have on the opportunities available to young people. Sarah has also worked as a Political Advisor to the Shadow Education Secretary and as Head of Policy at the Social Mobility Commission – where she started developing the idea for Get Further, recognising that improving basic skills is a key social mobility challenge for our country. In 2018, Get Further won the Teach First Innovation Award – a nationwide competition to find the next big ideas to tackle education inequality. Sarah is a Shackleton Leader and was shortlisted for the inaugural Virago/New Statesman Women’s Prize for Politics and Economics. She has a first class degree in mathematics and was awarded a distinction for her Masters in Education.

Anne is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Oxford. She has two mathematics degrees and a DPhil in Mathematics Education. After teaching for 13 years in comprehensive schools she moved into teacher education and research, with 18 years at University of Oxford. She served on the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education and advised on the 2013 Mathematics Curriculum for England and the Mathematics Curriculum for Wales. She publishes articles for teachers of mathematics at all levels, and numerous academic papers and chapters ranging from primary to tertiary levels of mathematics. Since retirement, she has worked in her local NCETM Maths Hub in ITT and in a strategic role. Among teachers of mathematics she is best-known as a co-author of 'Questions and Prompts for Mathematical Thinking' and 'Thinkers'. Internationally she is best known for the dissemination of ideas about exemplification, variation and task design. All her work is driven by a belief in social justice: that all learners are entitled to be helped to understand mathematics enough to act creatively and powerfully in the world.