Anthony Boutall, Fellow

Anthony Boutall is an Assistant Headteacher at one of the UK’s leading grammar schools, simultaneously holding responsibility as Head of Faculty for Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. In education, he has deployed robust pedagogical tools and helped facilitate self-development. His students have attained more progress than 90%< of the country, as well as being in the top 1% for attainment.

He studied PPE at Oxford, where he wrote a dissertation on the 1979 budget, and he has since written articles for think tanks and political organisations. He has successfully campaigned on behalf of taxpayers and actively supported the introduction of greater choice in education, breaking LEA monopoly power at a local level.

Before moving into education, Anthony worked in executive search and consulting. He was directly responsible for advising Chairmen of FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 PLCs, and he went on to become the youngest director at his firm.

Anthony advises and supports the ASI in the organisation’s extensive educational offering, helping to spread knowledge and understanding of the philosophical, political, and economic foundations that underpin the intellectual weight of Adam Smith’s ideas, as well as those of his successors.