Philip Evans

Who is Philip Evans?

Ian Philip Evans OBE FRSC is an educationalist and former Headmaster of Bedford School in England. Born and educated in North Wales, he read Natural Sciences at Churchill College, Cambridge and obtained a PhD in inorganic chemistry from Imperial College, London, working in the laboratory of Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson. He then taught chemistry at St Paul's School, London. In 1991 he was appointed as Headmaster of Bedford School, a position which he held until the summer of 2008. He was also appointed as a government advisor on education, from which post he retired in 1999, and was subsequently awarded an OBE for his work. He is currently an appointed member of the council of the Royal Society of Chemistry.