Sir Ian Bauckham CBE has been selected by the Secretary of State for Education as interim Chief Regulator of Qualifications for England, replacing Dr Jo Saxton who will leave her current role as Chief Regulator at the end of the year to become Chief Executive at UCAS.
Sir Ian has served as Chair of Ofqual since January 2021 and will stand down in order to take up the post of interim Chief Regulator. He has been a member of the Ofqual board since March 2018.
The appointment as interim Chief Regulator is for 12 months from 1 January 2024. The public appointments process for a substantive Chief Regulator will commence shortly.
Sir Ian was knighted for services to education in January 2023. He has been Chief Executive Officer of the Tenax Schools Academy Trust since 2015, a role from which he is standing down to become the interim Chief Regulator. He is also Chair of Oak National Academy.
