WATCH: New King Edward VI chief on plans for schools

Jodh Dhesi, the new chief executive of King Edward VI Foundation, talks to Chamber CEO Henrietta Brealey about his plans for the historic institution and its schools.

He also discusses his plans to work with the business community and the Foundation 's ambition to make Birmingham the best place to be educated.

Jodh joined the foundation in January in succession to Heath Monk. Hespent 14 successful years at Parkside Federation Academies, starting as head of Modern Foreign Languages before successive promotions took him to the post of headteacher. Under his leadership, the school was rated outstanding by Ofsted in 2017.

Moving to the United Arab Emirates in 2019, Jodh was initially head of Performance and Standards for the Indian Schools in the GEMS Education and soon given responsibility for school improvement strategy and academic performance of all GEMS Education 's 46 Schools in the UAE (offering English, IB, Indian and US curricula).

He was later appointed as deputy CEO for GEMS Education, with strategic educational oversight of the group 's schools in the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

Watch the Q&A interview below�