Isobel McGregor has 40 years of experience working in education in Scotland and beyond as a teacher, local education adviser and education officer, and as a member of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education (HMIE). Isobel inspected in all sectors of education (except university), leading many tasks and specialising in quality improvement, self-evaluation and leadership, as well as in her original field of foreign languages. She had a significant role in the development of quality indicators for inspection and self-evaluation. She undertook international work and led in the production of a key report on Scottish education (Improving Scottish Education, HMIE, 2006). Since 2006, Isobel has acted as an independent educational consultant in many locations including Argentina, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Macedonia and Japan. She has been involved in reviewing education in several Districts in Connecticut and in schools in New York. Since 2009 she has worked part-time for the Standing International Conference of Inspectorates (SICI) as the co-ordinator of activities relating to SICI’s Inspection Academy and leading SICI’s involvement in a European Social Fund sponsored project to train education inspectors in Romania.