Dame Christine Ryan, DBE, FRSB is a British teacher and public servant. Since August 2020, she has been Chair of the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted). Having worked as a teacher between 1976 and 1993, she was then an Ofsted inspector from 1993 to 2009, and Chief Inspector and CEO of the Independent Schools Inspectorate from 2005 to 2017.[1][2][3] Ryan is a co-founder of an education consultancy, Ryan and Grunsell.[4]