Sir Christopher Ball
Year conferred: 2007
Sir Christopher Ball is a leading thinker, reformer, and implementer of education policy. After studying at Oxford University, he went on to become an academic and a policy maker, with interests in: early learning, brain science, further and higher education, and learning in the workplace. Sir Christopher has held numerous prestigious positions in higher education institutions, and has served on, or chaired, many advisory committees. He was knighted more than a decade ago for his services to education. Sir Christopher has close ties with Westminster Institute of Education and he is a member of The Oxford Cognitive Neuroscience Education Forum.

