Executive Team

Stuart Lock
CEO

Stuart has 22 years of experience teaching, 16 of which have been in leadership in schools.

Before becoming CEO of Advantage Schools, Stuart was the Executive Principal at BFS.  He has previously been Headteacher of a school in Cambridgeshire.  Prior to that his experience was in four London schools.  Stuart is also a maths teacher.

Stuart regularly presents at national conferences, particularly on the philosophy of education and on educational research.

He has advised the Department for Education on a few groups, including the group that developed the Early Career Framework for recently qualified teachers, the group that wrote the Headteacher Standards in 2019, and the group that looked at the role of National Leaders of Education in 2019.

Stuart has three young children.