Brett Wigdortz

Brett Wigdortz
Personal details
BornOcean Township, New Jersey, United States
NationalityAmerican, British[1]
Residence(s)North London, England
OccupationFounder of Teach First
Social entrepreneur

Brett Harris Wigdortz OBE (born in 1973) is the Founder and Honorary President of Teach First,[2] an educational charity working to break the link between low family income and poor educational attainment in England and Wales. He founded Teach First and was its CEO from its launch in 2002 until October 2017.[3] He is originally from Ocean Township, New Jersey, United States and is a dual US/UK citizen.

He is co-founder and was Deputy CEO and for 12 years a trustee of Teach For All,[4] a global charity created with Wendy Kopp (who also founded Teach For America in 1989) to help social entrepreneurs in other countries start similar programs and create a global network of social enterprises dedicated to addressing educational disadvantage.

He is currently the co-founder and CEO of tiney.co, a software driven childcare company whose mission is to revolutionise the world’s childcare, and solve the early years crisis. tiney.co are a tech-centric childminding agency focused on helping great educators operate successful early years settings from their homes.

Wigdortz was a founding trustee of Ada, the National College for Digital Skills which educates and empowers the next generation of diverse digital talent. In 2012, he founded and continues to serve on the board of the Fair Education Alliance,[5] which was incubated in Teach First until spinning out in 2019. In 2018, he worked with Jamie Oliver to found and is currently on the board of Bite Back 2030, a movement of young people who are campaigning for a healthier generation.[6]

  1. ^ Teaching's man with a mission to free young Britons from 'slavery', The Guardian, 29 October 2012
  2. ^ Teach First."Teach First official website" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
  3. ^ "Brett Wigdortz to leave Teach First". 27 January 2017.
  4. ^ Teach For All."Teach For All official website" Archived 2012-07-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 29 October 2012
  5. ^ "Board". Fair Education Alliance. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  6. ^ "Our People | Bite Back 2030". www.biteback2030.com. Retrieved 2023-07-28.