Date of Appointment: 13 February 2023

Ulric Neblett-Leigh graduated in 1993 from the University of Surrey with a degree in Hotel and Catering Management. After an international hospitality career including working at the Hilton Amsterdam, Disneyland Paris and London’s Athenaeum Hotel and Apartments, he achieved a long held dream and retrained in 2005 as a primary school teacher. 18 years in education then followed including more recently leading a number of schools in West Sussex and Hampshire. Ulric has a keen interest in the arts, is a member of ArtFund and likes to get out to see art as often as possible in the UK and further afield. He has been a school governor for many years; the Chair, and separately, Treasurer of Worthing Black History Group and is the Learning and Engagement Trustee for Watts Gallery Trust.

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