Haberdashers' Academies Trust South

The following biographies are of governors who served within the last 12 months.

Joanne Abeyie

Type of Governor

Co-opted Governor

Committee Membership

Hatcham Primary LGB, Hatcham College LGB

Appointment Start Date

08/03/2021

Term of office

4 years

Appointed by

Appointed by the Directors of the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association

Joanna Abeyie is an award winning entrepreneur, champion of diversity, inclusion and equality, public speaker and campaigner, journalist and broadcaster.

Joanna's latest enterprise is founding Blue Moon, a flagship consultancy and recruitment business helping businesses to understand the importance of having inclusive and diverse workforces. Prior to this she founded Hyden, a recruitment business placing diverse senior leadership talent in the media and creative industries. Over the past decade Joanna has placed more than 3,000 people from diverse backgrounds in positions in the creative industries, significantly improving representation of BAME and working class talent in the sector.

Joanna has also worked as a diversity and inclusion consultant for media giants including the BBC, ITV, ITN, Channel 4, Sky and The Guardian and has extensive experience of advising FTSE 100 companies in diversity, inclusion and corporate social responsibility. She also visited No. 10 to meet with Prime Minister Theresa May to discuss race and equality and was instrumental in the establishment of the Creative Diversity All Party Parliamentary Group, chaired by Ed Vaizey MP from 2010 to 2016. Joanna's formidable campaigning and lobbying has seen her faint a seat on the NUJ's Black Members Council and secure roles on the Board of Directors for The Lord Mayor's Appeal, The Media Council, Investor in People and the board of advisors for Ghana-based leadership and skills initiative Cedi Street.

Joanna established TV and film production company LH productions and in addition to her own productions and interviews, she presents a news and events round up on Dotun Adebayo's weekly BBC Radio London Show every Sunday. Joanna's achievements as a businesswoman, including being a Managing Director of a FTSE 250 global business (SThree Plc) have been recognised in numerous awards and Joanna being the youngest woman to be given the keys to the City of London.

Joanna grew up in South London in a working class family (Ghanaian father and English Mother) that stressed the important of education and hard work in achieving your goals. In October 2018 Joanna gave a TED Talk on Social Mobility for TEDXLIVEMUSCAT. Joanna spoke of her journey as a woman of colour from a working class background who studied English and Sociology as an undergraduate and then pursued a MA in Magazine Journalism before becoming a successful journalist, diversity campaigner and pioneering businesswoman. As an 18 year old undergraduate Joanna co-founded employment charity Elevation Networks and at 20 she launched social enterprise Shine Media and MagNet, a diversity mentoring scheme with the UK Professional Publishers Association.

Sir Robin Bosher

Chair

Sir Robin Bosher

Type of Governor
Chair
Committee Membership
Hatcham College LGB
Appointment Start Date
17/05/2021
Term of office
4 years
Appointed by
Appointed by the Trust Board in accordance with the Articles of Association
Sir Robin Bosher is now an independent school advisor and Ofsted inspector. He was the Ofsted Regional Director for the South East and National Director for Inspection Quality and Training as well as HMI.
Prior to this he was the Director of Education for the Harris Federation. During this time, he opened nine sponsored academies and several free schools.
He was a Headteacher for twenty-two years and during that time he led five very different schools. Lately, he was the Executive Headteacher of the Federation between Fairlawn, Hasletine and Kilmorie Schools in Lewisham. Fairlawn was deemed by Ofsted as 'outstanding' in every category.
Sir Robin was a National Leader of Education and Fairlawn was a National Support School and designated as one of the first Teaching Schools in the country. Sir Robin was awarded the National College School System Leader of the Year award, in 2010. He is an NPQH coach and he worked on the NPQH programme for over ten years.
Sir Robin has worked as a DfE Adviser and he led the London Challenge Partners Primary Programme as Operational Director. He was Headteacher on the DfE 'Achievement for All' steering committee and was a member of the DfE Reference Group.
He is Chair of Governors at Langley Park Girls School.
Sir Robin Bosher was knighted for services to education in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Birthday honours, in June 2012.