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Stephen Morales

Stephen has a 20-year career history in operations and finance, working at a senior level in the public and private sectors. He has managed significant change management and quality assurance programmes for local government and international commercial banking organisations. Stephen has held the position of Finance Director in the UK education system and enjoyed a spell performing a similar role internationally. Stephen returned to the UK in 2007 and has since worked closely with the Department for Education in areas of policy reform.

Between 2014 and 2015, Stephen presided over the development and implementation of nationally recognised school business management professional standards and in 2017 led the change of status from the National Association of School Business Management to the Institute of School Business Leadership.