GARRY LE DUFF BECOMES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

In June 1995, Mr Garry Le Duff is appointed as Executive Director, a role he holds for 17 years until February 2013.

He identifies several challenges when he takes over the role, such as:

• significant growth in the number of Independent schools, particularly among the low fee schools in both the city and the country regional areas;
• change in governance structure of the Independent Schools Board and the need to open key leadership positions to a wider range of the membership; and
• increase in the advocacy role of the organisation in a political sense.

 

For Garry, in his many years of outstanding leadership, he is most proud of raising the advocacy role in the Independent sector.

In addition, one of the Association’s greatest strengths is its neutrality in representation “… the staff of the Association can represent both the common and the different views (of schools) to government and to the other school sectors so that they become more aware of that diversity of views within the sector.”