Speaker Profile

Tony Millns Chief Executive English UK Ltd
Tony Millns is Chief Executive of English UK, the world's leading language teaching association, with 340 accredited centres in membership in the UK. A former senior civil servant, he is also on the Board of the Tourism Alliance, the representative body for the UK's £76 billion tourism sector. Born in Doncaster in 1951 and educated at the Grammar School there, Tony Millns taught English as a foreign language in Finland before going up to Oxford in 1969. He has lectured at the University of Cambridge before moving into communications, marketing, PR and lobbying, working for Cambridgeshire County Council (1981-4), the University of London (1984-91) and the Association of County Councils (1991-3). In 1993 he became Assistant Chief Executive of the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority (SCAA), where over the next four years work on all three of the Dearing reviews. In 1997, on the merger of SCAA with the National Council for Vocational Qualifications, he became Assistant Chief Executive of the new body, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. In 1999-2000, he undertook two secondments, working with the Institute for Public Policy Research on the concept of individual learning accounts, and with the Business in the Community London region team to develop a case for greater business involvement in London social and environmental problems. In 1999, he became Chief Executive of the Association of Recognised English Language Services Ltd - now English UK - the leading trade and professional association for English language teaching. He is currently a member of the High-Level Steering Group on the Prime Minister's Initiative to recruit more foreign students into UK education, of the DTI/DfES Education and Training Export Group, and is a director and company secretary of the Tourism Alliance, the top-level representational body for the UK's £75 billion tourism industry. He was a director of the Campaign for Real Ale Ltd for ten years and National Chairman from 1982-5. He has published books and articles on literary criticism, education policy and brewing history.	Presentations by this speaker: Effective Governance: Practical outcomes and benefits Diversified Revenue Generation Through A B2B Trade Fair

 

 

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