About Ewan Mitchell.

I founded Mitchell Education to bring two worlds together. For most of the last decade I've worked at the intersection of education and artificial intelligence — but from opposite sides. The work I do now sits on the bridge between them.

I spent six years teaching maths and physics at Alleyn's School in south-east London, leading Oxbridge preparation and contributing to academic policy and timetabling. I then moved to Brentwood School as Head of Department. Teaching shaped how I think about almost everything: the difference between explanation and understanding, the relationship between effort and learning, the way real classrooms differ from any neat theory of them.

I left teaching to lead AI in industry. I built and ran the generative AI function at Octopus Energy as Head of AI, and then Global Head of GenAI — taking the function from a standing start to a strategic capability across the group. Before that, I held AI leadership roles in regulated financial services, where the cost of getting it wrong was high enough to teach me a lot about how AI actually works in serious organisations.

Throughout all of this I've stayed close to schools. I've been a primary school governor for five years and currently chair the finance and resources committee. My own children are in school. Education has always been the thing I cared most about; AI is the question I now know most about; this consultancy is what happens when the two meet.

My academic background is in physics — undergraduate at Cambridge, doctorate at Oxford. I live in south-east London with my family.