Head of Learning and Skills, G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services
Alex Waldron is the Head of Learning and Skills at HMP Five Wells, a large training and rehabilitation prison.
Alex spent 10 years as the Head of English at several schools in London. She then moved to the USA to be Head of English and a teacher coach at private and public schools in the USA, returning to the UK in 2020 to serve as Assistant Headteacher at a secondary school in Cambridgeshire. She then moved into higher education as a senior manager of academic strategy at the Open University before transitioning to educational leadership in the prison sector.
Alex holds a master’s degree in English from Harvard University, a PGCE (secondary English) from the University of London, a bachelor’s degree in classics from the University of Bristol, and she is currently completing a master’s degree in International Relations with the Open University.