Dr Lee Elliot Major

Chief Executive; The Sutton Trust

Lee is Chief Executive of the Sutton Trust and leads on development work. He oversaw the trust’s research work from 2006-2012.

He is a trustee of the Education Endowment Foundation, and chairs its evaluation advisory board. He has served on a number of Government advisory bodies on social mobility and education. He is an adviser to the Office for Fair Access, and sits on the Social Mobility Transparency Board. He commissioned and is a co-author of the Sutton Trust-EEF toolkit for schools. He was previously an education journalist, working for the Guardian and Times Higher Education Supplement.