Jim Wynn

Chief Education Officer and Head of Education Strategy, Promethean

Jim Wynn leads the Education Strategy Group at Promethean and is responsible for the company’s strategic thinking and direction in education.

The Education Strategy Group works as a trusted adviser to Governments and other organizations to explore the intelligent use of technology to improve teaching and learning.

Jim continues to work on Teacher Professional Development and is proud to have founded the work on the Competency Framework for Teachers with UNESCO. He is also working on new ideas around re-engineering the way in which the curriculum and assessment are structured. Jim is involved in a number of initiatives to try to accelerate the productivity of the learning process and has co-authored white papers on the subject. Jim cofounded Education Fast Forward a worldwide debating group with Cisco and is a director of the 21st Century Learning Alliance Board in the UK and a trustee on the Bloodhound Education Trust.

Wynn brings a mixture of ICT industry and practical educational experience to this role. He has been an educator since 1976 and was Principal of two large secondary schools in the UK that used ICT across the curriculum and in every other activity to support the running of the schools. Both schools were seen as centres of excellence in the use of ICT and achieved exceptional results for students of all abilities. Between the two schools he was Head of Education Research at the leading UK supplier of ICT to education and was also a research fellow at the University of Warwick where he supported research into ICT in Education. Jim also worked with the British Council, helping to advise Governments including China and Russia on the strategic implementation of ICTs. Before joining Promethean, JIm was Director for Public sector and Education Strategy consulting in emerging markets at Cisco working in countries from Pakistan to Brazil. Previously at Microsoft in the Europe, Middle East and Africa theatre where he worked on the WEF Global Education Initiatives in Jordan and Egypt Jim oversaw a $20M 5 year programme covering 61 countries such as Namibia, Kenya and South Africa. At Microsoft Jim established the first Innovative Teachers Forum in London, which is now a worldwide Microsoft programme.

Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Jim has a first class honours degree in Mathematics from the University of Hertfordshire and is currently attempting to resurrect a PhD study into the effect of ICT in thinking and problem solving at Macquarie University, Australia.

Jim is married with three children, Andrew, Rosie and Jack. He is a keen Newcastle United football supporter, plays the trumpet very badly and enjoys origami.

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