Kathy Sawtell

Business Development Director, The Perse School

Kathy Sawtell leads the Perse’s international strategy. She has been very involved in the setting up of The Perse Singapore from early conversations with the prospective partner,  the contract negotiations, the EDB bid for the government land through to the marketing of the school and ongoing school performance improvement.

Kathy has experience in strategic planning, school start-ups, partner identification, legal and commercial matters, site selection, team formation across different cultures and markets, marketing, and school performance improvement having worked on international projects in Singapore and China and an AI ed tech start up project  – Blutick (subsequently sold to Oxford/AQA) in the UK.

Kathy is an experienced education leader with over 25 years’ experience in education and business across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. She draws on her breadth of experience, in both educational and commercial leadership (as a business coach, as a marketeer at Diageo and as a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group), and in strategy and operations.

Kathy holds a BA (Hons) and MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford.

Kathy is passionate about the transformative power of education and its ability to change lives and shape futures

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