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Steering Committee

Members and Affiliation

• Professor Deborah Eyre, Director, NAGTY, University of Warwick (Chair)
• Professor Jim Campbell, Head of Expertise Centre, NAGTY, University of Warwick
• Mr Tim Dracup, Head of the Gifted and Talented Education Unit, Department for Education and Skills
• Mr Glenn Earle, Goldman Sachs International
• Mr Richard Elsden, Caterpillar (UK) Limited
• Ms Maria Evans, Royal Shakespeare Company
• Professor Joan Freeman
• Mr Tom Goldman, Teaching and Learning, Schools Standard Group, Department for Education and Skills
• Mr Mark Gore, Warwickshire County Council Department of Education
• Mr John Leighfield, RM plc
• Ms Clare Lorenz, Children of High Intelligence
• Dr Ken McCluskey, University of Winnipeg
• Mr Adrian Mills, London Gifted and Talented
• Professor Diane Montgomery
• Dr Geoff Parks, Director of Admissions for the Cambridge Colleges
• Mrs Johanna Raffan, Director, NACE National Office
• Ms Elizabeth Reid, The Specialist Schools Trust
• Mr Ian Rowley, Communications Office, University of Warwick
• Mr David Seymour
• Mr Ken Sloan, Student Academy and Corporate Services Director, NAGTY, University of Warwick
• Ms Chris Smith, Head Teacher Additional Support Needs (Acting), Braehead Primary School
• Professor Mary Stiasny, The British Council
• Ms Tessa Stone, The Sutton Trust
• Mrs Margaret Sutherland, Scottish Network for Able Pupils
• Dr Stephen Tommis, Director, National Association for Gifted Children
• Dr Klaus K. Urban, Universitat of Hannover
• Belle Wallace, NACE National Office
• Mr Nigel Ward, Granada Learning
• Mr Andrew Whiteley, Warwick Conferences, University of Warwick
• Professor Sir David Winkley

Programme Committee

Members and Affiliation

• Mrs Johanna Raffan, Director, NACE National Office (Chair)
• Ms Yvonne Burke, Hammersmith and Fulham Local Authority
• Mr Tim Dracup, Head of the Gifted and Talented Education Unit, Department for Education and Skills
• Professor Joan Freeman
• Ms Julie Graham, NACE
• Ms Gillian Heath, Nottingham City Local Authority
• Dr Ruth Hewston, Senior Research Fellow, NAGTY, University of Warwick
• Ms Hilary Lowe, Oxford Brookes University
• Ms Penny Mortimer, NAGTY World Council Conference Project Manager, University of Warwick
• Ms Kate Niederer, Gifted Education Consultant
• Dr Geoff Parks, Director of Admissions for the Cambridge Colleges
• Professor Richard Pring, University of Oxford
• Mr Ken Sloan, Director, Student Academy and Corporate Services, NAGTY, University of Warwick
• Ms Chris Smith, Head Teacher Additional Support Needs (Acting), Braehead Primary School
• Mrs Sue Soan, Canterbury Christ Church University
• Mr Marcelo Staricoff, St Bartholomew’s CE Primary School
• Mrs Margaret Sutherland, Scottish Network for Able Pupils
• Dr Stephen Tommis, National Association for Gifted Children
• Mrs Barbara Vann, Penair School
• Belle Wallace, NACE, National Office
• Dr Carrie Winstanley, School of Education Studies, Froebel College

Mrs Johanna Raffan

Johanna Raffan is Director for NACE. She has had many years’ teaching experience and was a Head Teacher for 25 years in Nursery, Primary and Middle schools. She was a founding Committee Member of the National Association for Able Children in Education and is a past President. As a NACE trainer she provides In-service sessions and lectures widely in the UK.

Her experience has led her to lecture throughout Europe, Australia, Asia and North and South America and she was the Education Adviser on Able Children to the Government of Madeira. She is currently a board member of Mentiqa School for gifted children in Denmark.

She was Chairman of the NACE/DfES Project and is Consultant on More Able & Talented to the Welsh Assembly Government.

She is the Secretary of the European Council for High Ability (ECHA) and for several years she has been a UK delegate to the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children.

She has written several articles and contributed to a number of books.

In 1996 the College of Preceptors made her one of their 15 Honorary Licentiates for her work in the field of Able, Gifted and Talented. She is a Council Member of the College of Teachers and also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Partners

• DfES
• University of Warwick
• University of Cambridge
• Canterbury Christ Church University College
• Oxford Brookes University
• The National Association for Able Children in Education
• The National Association for Gifted Children
• London Gifted & Talented
• The British Council
• The Royal Shakespeare Company
• The Scottish Network for Able Pupils
• Warwickshire County Council
• Coventry City Council
• Professor Joan Freeman, Visiting Professor at Middlesex University, London and founding President of the European Council for High Ability (ECHA)
• Johanna Raffan, UK Delegate
• Tony Hurlin, UK Delegate