Lucy Crehan is a qualified teacher an education explorer and an international education consultant. She taught science and psychology at a secondary school in London for three years before turning her sights to research and policy and gaining a distinction in her masters in Politics Development and Democratic Education at the University of Cambridge.Since returning from her groundbreaking trip around the worlds top-performing education systems she has published a report on teacher career structures for IIEP UNESCO advised the UK government as part of a working group on teacher workload and spoken about her work at conferences in the UK the US and Sweden. She now works as part of a team advising foreign governments on education reform at the Education Development Trust. Lucy lives in Bath with her fiancé Mark.