Director, YPI: Alex Reynolds

Alex joined as Director of the Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) in August 2009. Before joining the Institute, Alex was Education Advisor at CABE (The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment). At CABE he designed and developed ‘Green Day', an event about climate change for schools, which involves 100,000 pupils across the country annually. Prior to CABE, Alex was Head of Humanities and later Director of Studies of the Oporto British School in Portugal. Alex was part of the inaugural cohort of TeachFirst and taught Geography for two years at the West London Academy. Between graduating from Newcastle University and joining TeachFirst he led backpacker tours around Europe and taught English to businessmen in Tokyo.