About the author

Mark Anderson is President, Schools & Higher Education and Strategy & Business Development for Pearson International. Mark has worked twice for Pearson, most recently from 2007, and previously in the period 1984–1997. In the intervening period he worked in consumer goods and technology businesses. He has lived and worked in London, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur, and received an MA from Cambridge and an MBA from Ashridge Business School. He is a Governor of De Montfort University and a Cambridge Fellow in Science and Policy.