I'm the Principal of both Embassy CES and Bellerbys College in London. I've been here since 1998 and I've seen a lot of changes. The job has never stopped being interesting, because it's a fast-moving environment with lots of challenges. I love seeing happy students, and staff doing their jobs in a professional and kind manner. I love the fact that the school is successful, growing, and that we're always trying to improve the quality of what we offer.

I was an English teacher for ten years in Italy, the UK and Quebec before moving into an educational management role in Mexico in 1994. I was then in charge of a language training organisation in their head office in Manchester, but after a couple of years decided that I missed the daily customer contact.

My main achievements here have been to oversee huge growth in both schools over the last ten years, and to plan and supervise the move to new purpose-built premises here in Greenwich in 2004.

London's great, but I don't get much chance to see it, as I live with my family in Hampshire, about 35 miles away. Oh yes, that's the one part of the job I don't like – commuting!