Director of Education and English – East Asia
British Council
Leighton is the Director Education and English for the British Council in East Asia. Leighton has 17 years working on Higher Education and Skills policy in the UK, South Asia and East Asia. He started with the British Council in India in 2014 and has been in Singapore since 2019. He has worked closely with the Government, Asian Development Bank, European Union and UK partners implement Skills reform programmes in India and Nepal and Higher Education in South East Asia. Prior to working with the British Council he worked with the Education Skills Funding Agency in the on qualification and apprenticeship reform.
Leighton is a graduate of the Institute of Education, University College London where he studied Educational Planning, International Development and Economics.