Brett Wigdortz

Brett Harris Wigdortz OBE (born in 1973) is the Founder and Honorary President of Teach First, an educational charity working to break the link between low family income and poor educational attainment in England and Wales. He founded Teach First and was its CEO from its launch in 2002 until October 2017. He is originally from Ocean Township, New Jersey, United States and is a dual US/UK citizen.

He is co-founder and was Deputy CEO and for 12 years a trustee of Teach For All, a global charity created with Wendy Kopp (who also founded Teach For America in 1989) to help social entrepreneurs in other countries start similar programs and create a global network of social enterprises dedicated to addressing educational disadvantage.

Wigdortz was a founding trustee of Ada, the National College for Digital Skills. In 2012, he founded and continues to serve on the board of the Fair Education Alliance, which was incubated in Teach First until spinning out in 2019. In 2018, he worked with Jamie Oliver to found and is currently on the board of Bite Back 2030, a movement of young people who are campaigning for a healthier generation.