Sir Nick Weller

As a National Leader of Education, Nick is Chief Executive and Accounting Officer of the Dixons Academies Trust. He is a Board member of both the Queen Street Group of national MATs and the New Schools Network.

He spent the first 25 years of his career in London, as an English Teacher, middle and senior leader, and then Headteacher. In 2006 he moved north to take up the post of Principal at Dixons City Academy on its conversion from the CTC.

Since then he has led the expansion of the Trust from just over 1,000 students then to well over 8,000 across Bradford and Leeds today, establishing one of the very highest-performing Multi-Academy Trusts in the country, in an area of significant social and educational disadvantage.

His knighthood was awarded for services to education in 2015, and an honorary Doctorate from Bradford University in 2019. His report to the Treasury and DfE on schools in the Northern Powerhouse region was published in November 2016.