David Ellis

Trustee of the Robert Owen Foundation

Director & Vice Chair of the Marches Consortium

Lead Responsibility:

Education and development

Committee Membership:

The President's Project and Development Committee. 

Outside Representations, Interests and Areas of Expertise:

• Formerly a primary school headteacher, university lecturer and Dean of Education and Dean of Students at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff (UWIC).
• Trained initially to be a teacher at Borough Road College in London (1966-69), followed by degrees with the Open University (BA) (1974) and Leeds University (B.Ed. and M.Ed.) (1974 and 1979).
• Spent three years working in the United States at the Ohio State University, where he completed his Ph.D. (1981-84).
• Taught for 12 years (1969-80) in primary schools in North Yorkshire, Somerset, West Yorkshire and East Yorkshire, where he was the headteacher of a small rural school near York.
• Taught in teacher education in Edge Hill University College, Lancashire (1980-81), Swansea Institute of Higher Education (now Swansea Metropolitan University) (1984-86) and UWIC (1986-2006).
• Has published in the fields of primary education, history of education and school inspections.
• Retired from UWIC in December 2006 and set up his own co-operative school inspection and educational consultancy company, of which he is the managing director.
• Has been a registered school inspector in Wales since 1994 and has now led over 100 primary school inspections.
• Has been a school governor of a local primary school since 1986 and is currently chair of governors for the third time.
• Was external examiner for the Marches Consortium between 2003-8.
• Is currently also a Trustee of the Touch Trust, a charity for the severely mentally disabled based in Cardiff and Headlines, a national charity that supports children with craniofacial impairment.