Welcome to the Malvern College community and thank you for your positive interest and support. I am genuinely delighted to write this first newsletter as the Founding Headmaster of Malvern College Tokyo and I look forward to meeting you in person when I arrive in Tokyo at the beginning of August.

It has been a dramatic time for Japan and the UK recently. The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Nara and the resignation of Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, demonstrate the importance and impact of politics, government and civil society on our lives.

I am thrilled that my arrival in Tokyo is imminent and that by the time this newsletter is circulated I should be residing in Shinjuku and working with Board members and colleagues to operationalise the start up plans for Malvern College Tokyo. I have been waiting for this exciting moment for many months...