• The Trustees
  • Rod Bristow
  • Will Butler-Adams
  • Sir William Castell LVO
  • David Cruickshank
  • Peter Dart
  • Terry Duddy
  • John Griffith-Jones
  • Richard Lambert
  • Robert Peston
  • Don Robert
  • Roland Rudd
  • Steve Smith
  • Christine Sydenham
  • Richard Thornhill
  • FORMER TRUSTEES
  • Clare Chapman
  • Dr John Dunford
  • Stephen Green
  • Lesley Longstone
  • Sir John Rose
  • Anthony Salz
  • Bob Wigley
• The partnership board
• Expert working groups
• Delivery partners
• The executive team

Lesley Longstone

Director General of Young People, Department for Education (until December 2010)

Lesley joined the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) in August 2001.  Initially she was responsible for the Specialist Schools policy and for Academies.  After a brief period as Director for Secondary Education, she became Bill Manager for the 2004 Higher Education Bill, followed by Director with responsibility for international work across DfES. 

In 2006 she moved to a post with responsibility for the Education and Inspections Bill and for choice, diversity and fair access in the schools sector. On the creation of the new Department for Children, Schools and Families, she became Director General of the new Young People Directorate which is responsible for ensuring that all young people make the most of their talents and are able to succeed in life.

Lesley resigned from the Taskfocre Trustees in December 2010 to take up a new role as Director General of Infrastrcutre and Funding at the Department for Education.