AoBSO President

Sir Roger Fry CBE

AoBSO are delighted to be supported by our President Sir Roger Fry CBE.

Roger Fry was born in Portsmouth, England, during World War 2, where he was educated at Primary and Grammar Schools and continued his education at the University of London. He graduated at King’s College and trained as a teacher at the Institute of Education.

His teaching career soon took him abroad and he became involved in founding a British School in Madrid in 1969 and was its Head for twelve years until 1981. From 1981 until 2019 he founded ten more British schools overseas in places as divergent as China and Central America, and chaired the Group that promoted them. He also established a multi academy trust of schools in England based in Portsmouth, with schools in Hampshire, Sussex and Berkshire.

In 1996 he was elected Chair of the Council of British Independent Schools in the European Communities (COBISEC), a role he held until 2011. During that time, he transformed the Association into the Council of British International Schools (COBIS) and its membership increased fourfold.