Roger Blamire has been working on innovation in schools since the 1980s and the early days of educational computing, from classroom to national level in the UK and, since 2000, at European Schoolnet, where he is Senior Adviser and Project Manager. Recent work includes managing the 30-country Survey of Schools: ICT in Education on behalf of the European Commission, a network for special educational needs, advising on evaluation aspects and pedagogies in a range of projects including the 9.5m EUR iTEC project. In addition he manages externally contracted survey work on behalf of industry clients, e.g. Cisco. He has been a member of the Horizon K-12 advisory board since 2009 and has provided consultancy on technology in education to, among others, the UK national education network, the European Commission, education ministries, the British Council, and the OECD. His career began as a language teacher in France and 12 years in secondary schools in the United Kingdom. He holds a master’s degree in French and teaching qualifications after studies at Manchester, Montpellier and Birmingham universities, and lives in Worcestershire, United Kingdom.