Martyn Oliver
Biography
Martyn Oliver is a Commissioner for the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities.
Martyn Oliver is the Chief Executive and Accounting Officer of Outwood Grange Academies Trust (OGAT) and a National Leader in Education.
He started teaching in 1995, joined OGAT in 2009 and was appointed as Chief Executive in 2016.
Oliver leads one of the country’s oldest and consistently high performing school trusts which currently has 34 academies – 24 secondaries and 10 primaries – in the Tees Valley, Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire regions. The Trust has been regularly praised for rapidly turning around failing schools, often in challenging circumstances, obtaining excellent Ofsted inspection outcomes.
OGAT is a ‘System Trust’ and has spent the last decade supporting the wider school system. The Outwood Institute of Education (OIE) is a large multi-hub teaching school alliance within OGAT where annually, hundreds of schools and thousands of teachers and educational professionals are trained.
Oliver is a board member of the Department for Education’s Opportunity North East, a trustee of the Confederation of School Trusts (CST) and for the David Ross Education Trust (DRET).
Oliver’s vision is to raise standards and transform lives through education, putting the needs of children first in all that he does.