Dr Geoffrey Newcombe has been Executive Director of the Association of Independent Schools of NSW Ltd since January 2005, having previously been AIS Director of School Governance and Industrial Relations. Dr Newcombe began teaching in 1969 and has extensive school governance and management experience, having been head and business manager in a number of independent schools in the past 25 years. In 2007 Dr Newcombe established the Independent Schools Teacher Accreditation Authority to help raise the professional status of teachers in the NSW and ACT independent sectors. The authority supports the NSW Institute of Teachers in formally recognising teachers’ achievements in the classroom, school and educational community. Dr Newcombe holds a PhD in financial management in schools and has lectured in the Master of Education program at the University of New South Wales.

In June 2011 Dr Newcombe was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales.

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