Senior Research Associate, Intellectual Forum, University of Cambridge

Chief Research Officer, Centre for Education Systems

Loic Menzies is a researcher and policy specialist. He is editor of Young People on the Margins: Priorities for action in education and youth and has authored numerous high-profile studies of issues ranging from teacher recruitment and educational assessment to youth homelessness.

Loic was previously Chief Executive of the ‘think and action-tank’ The Centre for Education and Youth and is a former teacher, youth worker and tutor for Canterbury Christ Church University's Faculty of Education. He has also been a school governor and a trustee of a number of youth and social entrepreneurship charities.

He is currently researching and writing his second book 'How Education and Youth Policy Happens' for Routledge and is a Visiting Fellow at the Sheffield Institute of Education. He is also an Associate Education Specialist for Cambridge University Press and Assessment's Assessment Network.