— INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT & ADVISER
A private practice for the decisions that matter. Built on institutional expertise.
Alexis Christodoulou is an independent consultant and adviser. He works with internationally mobile families on education and the broader questions that surround it. The greater part of this work is academic and practical — schooling, university, and the decisions that come with them. In every case, the aim is to help families navigate the landscape towards the best possible outcome.
Thirty years inside Britain's independent schools, twenty of them as a housemaster, with direct responsibility for the academic progress and character formation of young people aged thirteen to eighteen. He completed his secondary education at a Greek-speaking state gymnasium before being awarded a scholarship to UWC Atlantic College, where he studied the International Baccalaureate; a second scholarship took him to Imperial College London, where he read Engineering, graduating with a BSc and as an Associate of the City and Guilds Institute, and where he rowed in multiple Regattas and Heads and competed for the Temple Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. He holds an MA in Applied Psychology from the Open University, with specialisms in child and adolescent development and family dynamics, and completed his teacher training in mathematics at Canterbury Christ Church College, with state-school placements at Rainham Mark Grammar School and Rainham School for Girls, before entering the independent sector.
He served as a First Lieutenant in the Greek Army with the 1st Raider–Paratrooper Brigade and, following special forces selection and assessment, qualified as a Green Beret, specialising in asymmetrical warfare with operational service across multiple contexts. He was appointed Head of Mathematics at Dover College at the age of twenty-seven, and took on his first housemastership there, before moving to Abingdon School in Oxfordshire, where he was a housemaster of boys for eight years, taught A-level Further Mathematics, coached the rowing programme to nationally undefeated crews at Under-15, Under-16 and second VIII level, and led the cross-country team to nine consecutive county championship titles. At Wellington College in Berkshire he became the first male in the school's history to run a girls' boarding house single-handedly, leading a house of seventy-five girls aged thirteen to eighteen for ten years and achieving notable successes in university destinations. He has served as a Governor of St Andrew's School, Woking, sitting on the Human Resources and Education Committees, and now works with international families across the UK, Europe, the Gulf, South and East Asia, and North America on matters relating to education.
An endurance athlete since his thirties, he has trained and raced across the UK, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal, Germany and Austria, completing five European Ironman triathlons, seven Ironman 70.3s, and fourteen marathons and ultras.
Alexis lives with his family in Berkshire, and writes, occasionally, on Substack.
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