Michael Barber (educationist)

Sir Michael Barber (born 24 November 1955) is a British educationist and Founder and Chairman of Delivery Associates, an advisory firm focussed on working with governments and other organisations to help them deliver improved outcomes for citizens. He is a global expert on implementation of large-scale system change, a leading authority on education systems and education reform, and was knighted in 2005 for his contributions to improving government.

Barber has worked for over 20 years in education and government reform and improvement. During that time, he has advised governments in over 60 countries on issues of public policy and delivery. He was the founder and first head of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit under Prime Minister Tony Blair, and later served as Chief Education Advisor at Pearson, and as a partner at McKinsey, where he was head of the global education practice. He currently serves as Co-Chair of Boston Consulting Group’s not-for-profit foundation, Centre for Public Impact;; he has been a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Graduate School of Education; and he was recently appointed as Chair of the Office for Students (OfS) – the proposed new regulator for Higher Education in the UK. He recently published How to Run a Government: So that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don’t go Crazy, perhaps the most influential book on the subject of how governments can deliver results.

Barber was educated at Bootham School,York, an independent school with a Quaker background and ethos. He read History at the University of Oxford before training as a teacher. He taught in schools in Britain and Zimbabwe.

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