Following a 30-year career in education, including as a former CEO of UCAS, Mary now has a portfolio of non-executive and advisory roles in education and edtech.

She chairs the Dyson Institute and Pearson Education, Pearson’s UK qualifications arm. She’s a lay Council member at the University of Leicester and a NED at the London Interdisciplinary School, the Student Room and Education Cubed. She’s also a Trustee at HEPI and at multi-academy trust, The River Learning Trust. She is network Chair for edtech venture capital fund Emerge and advises a number of their portfolio companies. She chaired the UPP Foundation Student Futures Commission after the pandemic.

Mary has an MSc from London Business School, was awarded OBE in 2000 and was promoted to CBE in 2020 for service to further and higher education.