Professor Martin Doel CBE

Trustee (Chair)

Joined June 2023

After training as a teacher, Martin joined the RAF, serving for 28 years during which time he spent a tour of duty as the Station Commander of RAF Wyton, Brampton and Henlow before leaving as Director of Training Policy for all three armed forces in 2008.

On leaving the RAF, he became Chief Executive of the Association of Colleges, representing and supporting further education colleges across the UK, and where he worked closely with ministers and officials in the education and business departments.  In 2016 he was appointed as the first Professor of Leadership in Further Education and Skills at the Institute for Education University College London, where he has since moved to visiting status, whilst also continuing to fulfil various non-executive roles locally and nationally.

In 1998 he was appointed OBE in recognition of his support to operations in the Balkans and his contribution to Anglo-German relations, and in 2016 he was appointed CBE for his service to further and higher education.

Martin is now keen to contribute through Natural Cambridgeshire to the place in which he and his family have made their home for more than 30 years.