Brett Wigdortz

Brett Wigdortz
Personal details
Born	Ocean Township, New Jersey, United States
Nationality	American, British
Residence	North London, England
Occupation	Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Teach First Social entrepreneur

Brett Harris Wigdortz OBE (born in 1973) is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Teach First, an educational charity working to break the link between low family income and poor educational attainment in England and Wales. He is originally from Ocean Township, New Jersey, United States and is a dual US/UK citizen.

Wigdortz currently serves as a trustee of the National College for Digital Skills and Future Leaders, which recruits and train the next generation of outstanding headteachers for challenging urban secondary schools. He is also co-founder and a trustee of Teach For All, an organization created with Wendy Kopp (who also founded Teach For America in 1989) to help social entrepreneurs in other countries start similar programs and create a global network of social enterprises dedicated to addressing educational disadvantage.

Wigdortz graduated with an Honours bachelor's degree in Economics and International Studies: Politics and Diplomacy from the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia in 1995, and a master's degree in Economics from the University of Hawaii and a Masters Certificate in Asian Studies from the East-West Center in 1997.

While studying at the University of Hawaii, he worked as a researcher at the East-West Centre in Honolulu, focusing on energy and economic development issues in Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands. He co-authored a paper on future Asian energy flows ("China and Central Asia's Volatile Mix: Energy, Trade, and Ethnic Relations") and consulted for the State of Hawaii.

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