Jonny Uttley is the CEO of The Education Alliance Multi-Academy Trust (TEAL). He has been in post since April 2018, having previously been Head Teacher at South Hunsley School.

TEAL is a family of twelve schools, in East Yorkshire, Hull and York, serving over 7,000 students, and a SCITT which trains around 100 new entrants to the profession each year. The trust is responsible for primary schools, secondary schools, alternative provision and will open a new 120 place Free School specialising in SEMH. Everyone at TEAL has a deep and long-standing committed to genuinely inclusive education which delivers the highest standards for all young people.

As a National Leader of Education, Jonny has worked with schools in many different contexts and is committed to a school improvement approach that puts real ethical leadership at the heart of our system. He is an elected member of the DfE Advisory Board for Yorkshire and the Humber, a member of the DfE’s national MAT CEO Advisory Group and a trustee at SHINE, an educational charity committed to reducing disadvantage in northern schools.

Since 2024, he has been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Young Lives and has served on the Institute for Public Policy Research’s Inclusion Taskforce. Jonny has written extensively in TES and Schools Week on a range of policy issues, including workforce, inclusion, accountability reform.

In 2020 Putting Staff First: A Blueprint for Revitalising Our Schools was published, co-authored by Jonny and John Tomsett.