Debrett’s 500 List: Education

Our Chairman, Sir Peter Lampl, features in The Telegraph’s Debrett’s 500 list, the most influential people in education.

Leading educational philanthropist Sir Peter Lampl is founder and chair of the Sutton Trust, a charity which aims to improve social mobility by commissioning research and funding programmes. Lampl set up his own private equity firm in New York, and on returning to the UK was shocked by the deterioration of opportunities for children from low-income families. He created the Oxford Summer School and then the Sutton Trust in 1997, and has now dedicated 20 years and £50 million of his personal fortune to improving education and social mobility in the UK. Lampl also chairs the Education Endowment Foundation.

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