Deputy Chief Executive, NIACE.

Peter is the Deputy Chief Executive at NIACE where he has worked since 1999. Before this he spent five years as a full-time Further Education inspector in the basic education programme area. He was an advisor to the committee of inquiry into provision for students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities and one of the authors of the report Inclusive Learning (1996). Peter was formerly the education officer for young people and adults with special educational needs in Norfolk. Peter was a member of the LSC’s Equality and Diversity Committee (chairing the disability committee), and is a college governor. Peter has a doctorate in applied research in education and an honours degree in education. He received an OBE for services to education in the Queen’s birthday honours in 2006.