Gavin Horgan
Head, Millfield
Gavin joined Millfield in 2018 from Worksop College. His earlier career included working in schools in Sri Lanka and Argentina before he returned to the UK as the Deputy Rector of The Glasgow Academy. Gavin has worked in senior management in the maintained, independent, and international sectors of education. Millfield was founded in 1935 to address the iniquities of a world which regarded dyslexia as a hinderance, and which was prejudiced against dyslexic learners. Millfield seeks to find brilliance in every learner and is a global leader in educating dyslexic learners and has been involved in a number of showcase events involving Made by Dyslexia and Microsoft. In his time at Millfield, Gavin’s passion for encouraging students to be disruptors for good has resulted in students taking on active roles in multiple school, national, and world-wide issues. In his own words, Gavin took on the role at Millfield as the school is, ‘distinctively different and not shackled by tradition. It has
Events Gavin Horgan has spoken at
- Independent Schools Show 2026 14 November 2026