Brett Wigdortz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Brett Wigdortz

businessperson

Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1973

Place of Birth: Ocean Township, New Jersey, United States

Profession: entrepreneur

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Brett Harris Wigdortz OBE (born in 1973) is the Founder and Honorary President of Teach First, an educational charity working to break the link between low family income and poor educational attainment in England and Wales.
He was CEO of Teach First from its launch in 2002 until October 2017.
He is originally from Ocean Township, New Jersey, United States and is a dual US/UK citizen. He is co-founder and a trustee of Teach For All, an organization created with Wendy Kopp (who also founded Teach For America in 1989) to help social entrepreneurs in other countries start similar programs and create a global network of social enterprises dedicated to addressing educational disadvantage.
On 12 July 2018 he was appointed as the chair of the National Citizen Service Trust.
He is currently the co-founder and CEO of tiney.co, a digital B-corp focused on reimagining at-home childcare and unlocking the potential of all children.Wigdortz was a trustee of the National College for Digital Skills and Future Leaders, which recruits and train the next generation of outstanding headteachers for challenging urban secondary schools.