Chief Executive Officer, Nord Anglia Education
Search every verified Andrew Fitzmaurice interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Andrew Fitzmaurice, CEO of Nord Anglia Education, has described the organization as operating in 28 countries with over 60,000 students and more than 12,500 staff. In welcome addresses to staff for the 2019–2020 academic year, he highlighted the company's "be ambitious" philosophy and its collaborations with Juilliard, MIT, and UNICEF, and stated that one in three Nord Anglia students go on to attend the world's top 100 universities. He said the organization claims to be "the world's leading premium schools organization" and emphasized the importance of both teaching and support staff in delivering an outstanding education. In a 2018 TEDx talk, Fitzmaurice discussed his own experience as a "third culture kid" who attended seven schools by age 13, and argued that frequent moves taught him not to fear new situations. He cited a World Economic Forum statistic that two-thirds of jobs future graduates will hold do not yet exist, and called on students to collaborate across cultures to address global problems. In a 2017 student interview, he said that a CEO's role involves resource allocation and that schools should be "owned by the community that it serves," rather than standardized like a chain. In a 2013 TEDx talk, he described "high performance learning" as not accepting limits placed on individuals, and used his own poor French exam result as an example of how low expectations can hinder achievement.
“we have seen a paucity of knowledge in the boards for quite some time and it's been a real frustration of the national cyber security Center and others the boards just didn't seem to understand or grasp the importance of cyber security and what was really missing was long-term board education”
“the whole view is to make the UK PLC far more cyber resilient and actually ensure that we reconnect boards with their organizations around the cyber security agenda”
“One statistic that I'm particularly struck by which is used by the World Economic Forum is that of students entering school today by the time they graduate two thirds of the jobs that they will take up when they graduate don't currently exist.”
“the chief executive is that you're really responsible for resource allocation because if you think about the resources in anything you know in the world it's often finite that there's only a certain amount that you've got you know there's only a certain amount of anything really whatever it happens to be and so as the...”
“the diversity of the schools is very very important so if we try to do you know like McDonald's or some of them would try to have it exactly the same everywhere that really doesn't work with schools that's you know disastrous strategies in schools so in schools what you have to do is you have to make sure that it's own...”
“Our mission in Nord Anglia education is that we want you as part of the family of schools to do better than you would have done if you were just in a school by yourselves.”
“We don't believe there is any limit on what any student can achieve. So we think it's very wrong to test someone at a certain age and say that you're going to achieve x amount or you're going to be a candidate for Ivy League or not a candidate for Ivy League based on some test that you sit at the age of 10 or 11 or 13...”
“high performance learning is about not accepting the limits that are placed on you as an individual about how much people think you can learn or how good you will be at a particular subject”
“people are very good at setting their expectation of what you can achieve but that's something you shouldn't accept because there's no way that I couldn't have got a French O Level exam at least an e”
Insights from the speakers at the 2022 Lancaster University Cyber Leadership Symposium - in partnership with Templar Executives. Andrew Fitzmaurice
The CEO of an international education provider presents his unique perspective on international education. Starting from his own experience with "An Education on the Road", Andrew Fitzmaurice calls on international students to respond to the Global Goals. Andrew Fitzmaurice graduated from the University of Wales Cardiff, with a degree in economics. He is currently the CEO of Nord Anglia Education. Previously, he was the CEO of EasyCar.com, an international online automobile rental company. Prior to his tenure at easyCar.com, Andrew spent 13 years at TNT Express UK, where he served in a variety…
BISH Student Interview - Andrew Fitzmaurice.
Our school Windermere Preparatory School is now a part of Nord Anglia Education. Reach A Student was able to interview Mr. Fitzmaurice at their Headquarters in Hong Kong and he was kind enough to share his insight. www.reachastudent.com
Prior to Nord Anglia Education Andrew was at EasyCar.com where he spent three years as Chief Executive. Before that Andrew ...
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