Chris Keates
Chris Keates, General Secretary of the
NASUWT
Chris Keates graduated in Archaeology and History from Leicester
University. She gained her PGCE at Birmingham University and taught
humanities in two Birmingham comprehensive schools from 1974 until
1994, before becoming an advisory teacher in the Birmingham LEA
Central Support Services.
Chris held a number of elected offices within the NASUWT prior
to joining the staff of the Union in 1998 when she was
appointed an Assistant Secretary with responsibility for
co-ordinating the development and implementation of Union
policy.
In April 2001 Chris was appointed Deputy General Secretary, and
in October 2004 she was elected as General Secretary of the
NASUWT.
NASUWT is the largest teachers' union in the UK and is one
of the ten largest affiliated to the TUC.
Chris has extensive experience of the education service and has
served, and continues to serve, on a wide range of Government task
groups and advisory committees.