Richard Pietrasik is Director of Now’s the Time. Prior to this he was CEO of the Scottish Executive Council for Education Technology and Director of Schools at the British Educational and Communication Technology Agency. He has worked extensively with the British Council across the Middle and Far East. He recently spent three years with the BBC leading the Education Team for the Digital Curriculum (BBC jam) and has worked with Learning and Teaching Scotland and the National College of School Leadership. He also has years of classroom experience teaching in the UK and Africa and as a head teacher of a large Scottish comprehensive school.

Richard presented Leading educational change: towards economic development during the poster sessions.