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Brian Lightman

Brian Lightman is General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL). He has a long association with ASCL; a member for more than 20 years, a branch secretary and council member since 1998, Honorary Treasurer from 2003-6, President of SHA Wales 2003-4, and ASCL national President 2007-8. He was appointed General Secretary in 2010.

Brian has a long career in education, teaching modern foreign languages for 16 years in three comprehensive schools in the South East of England before becoming headteacher of Llantwit Major School in 1995. From 1999-2010 Brian was headteacher of St Cyres School - a large, mixed 11-18 comprehensive in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan. Brian‘s broad experience within the English and Welsh education systems includes extensive representation on UK and Welsh Assembly Government committees, being an external examiner and an Estyn inspector.