After starting out as a teacher with Teach First in a London comprehensive school, Alex Beard did his MA at the Institute of Education before joining Teach For All, where he now heads the Global Learning Lab for Community Impact. He is fortunate to spend much of his time travelling the world in search of the practices that will shape the future of learning and has written about his experiences for the Guardian, Financial Times and Wired. He recently presented The Learning Revolution, a three-part series on the future of education for BBC Radio 4, and is the author of Natural Born Learners (2018), a user’s guide to transforming learning in the twenty-first century.