Peter Hyman has a string of education improvement achievements to boast about. He was co-director of Big Education, a new organisation set up to change the story of what matters in education. He was the co-founder and the first headteacher of School 21, a pioneering 4 to 18 years school that opened in Stratford, East London in 2012, and also co-founder of Voice 21, a social enterprise developing speaking skills in young people. For nine years to 2003, Peter worked as a strategist and speechwriter to the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. He left to become a teaching assistant in a challenging Islington school, before training as a history teacher and working his way up to become a headteacher.