Sir Peter Lampl, OBE

Chairman, Sutton Trust

In 1997 Sir Peter Lampl founded the Sutton Trust, a ‘do tank’ that aims to improve social mobility by funding programmes to address educational inequality. The son of a Czech immigrant, Lampl was educated at grammar schools in Reigate and Cheltenham and gained a place at Oxford. After an MBA at London Business School, he worked for Boston Consulting Group in the US before founding his own private equity firm The Sutton Company. Returning to the UK after 20 years, Lampl claims he was shocked by the deterioration in opportunities for children from low-income backgrounds. He set up the Oxford Summer School, giving 17-year-olds the opportunity to spend a week experiencing life at an Oxford college and getting to know existing students, a scheme which was subsequently rolled out to ten other universities. The Sutton Trust has now funded over 200 programmes supporting tens of thousands of young people. Lampl is also chairman of the Education Endowment Fund.

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