Simon Eliot

One of our most-experienced Senior Advisors, Simon has worked on a number of high-profile appointments projects, including Exeter School, Walhampton School, Leighton Park, Truro School, King’s Taunton, Brentwood School and the Aldenham Foundation. He brings huge wisdom to the process.

A Cambridge history graduate, he began his career as an insurance broker in the City of London and then taught briefly at Radley before spending 24 years at Winchester, the last 12 as a Housemaster. He was then Headmaster of Sherborne School for ten years and during that time he set up Sherborne Qatar in the Gulf.

Simon is a Governor of HMC schools in Bath and in Prague and, over the years, of several prep schools including Twyford and The Downs.