Toby Young is the co-founder of the West London Free School, the first Free School to sign a funding agreement with Michael Gove, and served as the Director of the New Schools Network until 2017. He is the author of four books,the best known of which is How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2001), which was made into a feature film,and three plays.Having worked as a teaching fellow at Harvard and a teaching assistant at Cambridge, he is currently a visiting fellow at the University of Buckingham.