English UK boards, advisory groups and rules

Mark Rendell (Chair) is CEO of IH London. He taught English in Poland, Saudi Arabia, and China before returning to the UK as Deputy Chief Executive of English UK in 2005. Six years later, Mark was appointed Principal at St Giles before taking up his present role two years ago. Mark is a member of the Accreditation UK Board, the IHWO Board, and the Cambridge Assessment Standards Committee. Mark holds an MSc in ELT Management.

Jago Brown is commercial director at UKLC and a former chair of English UK Scotland. He has 20+ years of experience in senior leadership roles and has led teams through significant change and uncertainty. Jago has experience of working with adult and junior providers as well as chains and independents. He has an MBA from the University of Edinburgh and is based in Scotland.

Tim Cooke is CEO and co-owner of Elac Study Vacations, a language school which has been delivering year-round and multi-centre summer school courses for juniors for 30 years.  He has worked in the industry for over 20 years and has a strong background in operations and finance. Tim is a former treasurer of Young Learners English UK.

Jane Dancaster is the principal and managing director of Wimbledon School of English and has been in ELT first as a teacher, then a manager, since 1983. She has been a director of English UK since it was formed in 2004, and was a member of the ARELS General Council before that.

Sarah Etchells taught in Greece for five years before setting up her own English language summer school for children and teenagers, English Country Schools. She is the joint chair of Young Learners English UK and has special responsibility for welfare.

Stephan Roussounis is managing director of Bayswater Education. Stephan has over 20 years of experience in the sector, from being an English language teacher, to leading large international groups of language schools (Stafford House International and now Eurocentres). 

Leon Zhang is owner and director of KKCL based in west London. He has a diverse business portfolio which includes English language schools, summer camps in the UK and China, an Early Years nursery, educational travel organiser and more. Leon was born in Beijing and moved to the UK during his high school years. He has a master's degree from Cass Business School.

Andrew Fisher (Chair) founded EAC in 1992, developing and leading it though to sale to TUI Travel PLC in 2009. He then founded OSCARS International, developing it and leading it through to sale in 2015. Throughout this time Andrew also operated OSCARS Childcare, an Edinburgh based company running after school clubs, breakfast clubs and holiday activity camps. Andrew founded OSCARS Childcare in 1992 and finialised the sale of the business in 2019.

Shoko Doherty is CEO of Celtic English Academy in Cardiff. She has worked in the industry since 2004, having first come to the UK as an international student. Shoko joined the board of trustees in 2017 and is currently vice chair of English UK Wales. She joined the Enterprises Board in February 2021.

Jodie Gray is chief executive of English UK. Jodie has a Chinese and Hindi degree from Cambridge University and is widely travelled, having visited nearly 40 countries during her 14 year career in international education. In January 2017, Jodie was seconded to the Department for International Trade's education sector team as the specialist for English language training.

Michael Quinn has been working in the ELT sector for over 15 years with Centre of English Studies (CES). He is an owner and director of CES and has worked in nearly every role involved in the running of an ELT centre.

Tregarran Percival is sales and marketing director at UK Language Courses (UKLC) where he has worked for over eight years. Tregarran joined the Enterprises Board in February 2021.

Shelan Rodger is regional director EMEA at Kings Education. She joined the Enterprises Board in June 2020 and has over 30 years' experience in international education and learning & development. Shelan has two published novels and is training as a drama therapist, with an interest in the creative application of arts therapies within the international education sector.

Judith Haste (Chair) is finance director at Bell Educational Services Ltd. She is a senior ACMA qualified accountant, with strong international commercial experience. She has worked in a range of sectors and organisation sizes, including as director of finance in both a FTSE 250 international group and a conservation charity before joining Bell in 2014.

Gareth Mainwaring is director of operations and development for the Birmingham International Academy (BIA) at the University of Birmingham. Following 12 years in government, including the Department for Education, he joined the HE sector. He has operational responsibility for the growth and delivery of foundation pathway, pre-sessional English and insessional programmes at the university. He also worked with the university to open its first international branch campus in Dubai and continues to work on other TNE initiatives.

Richard Simpson

University of Sheffield, English Language Teaching Centre