Steven Edwards grew up in Potters Bar and went to state schools before going to Oxford in 1976 to read physics, He then worked for 20 years in the software industry in a variety of roles from junior programmer to chairman and CTO of a medium sized company. He believes strongly in the value of education and the importance of equality of opportunity.

He and his wife, Ros Smith, have a number of charitable almost all supporting educations and he is now involved with running the bestCourse4me web site. bestCourse4me aims to improve social mobility by enabling students with the ability to benefit from university but from non-academic and disadvantaged backgrounds choose university courses that meet their needs and ambitions, and that are based on accurate and impartial information.

Steve’s other interests include flying and mountaineering.