As CEO of the Chartered College of Teaching - a professional body supporting teachers and raising the status of the teaching profession, Professor Dame Alison Peacock works to keep and attract excellent teachers into the profession. Prior to becoming CEO, Professor Dame Alison Peacock was Executive Headteacher of The Wroxham School in Hertfordshire. She is also director of the Edge Foundation, which works to improve the education system, and a trustee of Big Change, the charity rethinking and reshaping the systems around young people.