Chris Ramsey is Headmaster of Whitgift, and is responsible to the John Whitgift Foundation and School Committee for the strategic direction and overall success of the School.

He was educated at Brighton College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, taught at Shrewsbury and was Head of Languages at Wellington College, before becoming Deputy Head at Cranleigh and then Headmaster of King’s College Taunton. From 2007-17, he was Headmaster of King’s Chester.

He has two grown up sons and a daughter, chairs HMC’s Universities Committee, speaking for the sector on Higher Education matters, and sits on the Court of the University of Leicester and the Governing Body of Colfe’s School.