Mark Knight is a leading global expert in high-stakes English language education, assessment, and operational delivery.

He served as a Principal Consultant for Cambridge Assessment and is an experienced British Council Exams Director, bringing deep international experience from East Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.

Key Career Highlights:  

• Assessment & Benchmarking: Led major projects to set recruitment benchmarks for millions of job applicants across diverse industries (including healthcare) across India and China, and redesigned components of high-stakes teacher exams in Hong Kong.

• Government Consultation: Provided expertise to Education Ministers in nations like Libya and Yemen, and consulted for the UK, Australian and New Governments in benchmarking. He also consulted for the Macau Government on language benchmarks for its massive casino industry.

• Operational Leadership: Managed the delivery of millions of UK Exams across vast regions for over 120 UK Exam Boards. He was responsible for all critical operations, including Fraud Prevention, Child Protection, and IT Service Delivery in challenging locations like Iraq, Gaza, Libya and Yemen.

• Academic and Audit Expertise: Held senior academic roles (RMIT University Vietnam, King Saud University KSA) and is the author of the British Council's global quality assurance audit, the QCA (Quality and Compliance Audit).