Baljit Dhadda

Dr Baljit Dhadda is Partner in charge of Education at Rockpools. A passion for meritocracy, liberty, social justice, minority rights and inclusion is evident throughout her career. She holds a BA in History/Politics from the University of Warwick, a MA in Gender and International Development from the University of Warwick, a Common Professional Examination from Wolsey Hall, Oxford and a PhD from the University of London. As a student, she volunteered for ‘Artists Against Apartheid’. She is also a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Warwick Law School and a Trustee of Coventry Sports Trust. Her publications include ‘Patenting Human Genetic Information. Is Nothing sacred?’ in Perspectives on Intellectual Property and ‘Thinking Bioethics’ in the academic legal journal Law, Culture, and the Humanities.

She has a very impressive and broad-based track-record in the Education sector which has included an expertise in anti-racist, multi-cultural education. Baljit began her career as a teacher of History and Politics for the Inner London Education Authority. During subsequent experience in London, Reading and Coventry, she has taught in very difficult inner city schools as well as schools for privileged children; her educational experience is across the public and state school sectors, formal and informal educational sectors, regeneration programmes as well as FE Colleges and Universities.

Since leaving the education sector, Baljit embarked on a successful career in executive search and selection. At Rockpools, she has worked on the search and selection of ministerial and other senior appointments of key executive positions in the regeneration, transport, housing, local and central government clients sector that include the Olympic Delivery Authority, Peterborough City Council and the South East of England Development Agency. The Rockpools Education team have an impressive track-record in the education sector and our clients include schools, academies, further education colleges, the Department of Children, Families and Schools, local government and OFSTED.