Charlotte Houghteling

Charlotte Houghteling joined the governing body in 2023. Charlotte is a Lecturer in Law at Oxford Brookes University, where she teaches contract law and works with students in their co-curricular opportunities and career pathways. Charlotte was educated at Harvard University (BA), the University of Cambridge (MPhil), Columbia University School of Law (JD), the London School of Economics (LLM) and the University of Buckingham (PhD).

Charlotte began her career as a lawyer in New York City where she was a founding partner at a boutique litigation firm and was named a New York Super Lawyer Rising Star. She then moved back to the UK and co-founded A-List Education UK, an educational services firm offering guidance on the US university process. Charlotte worked with thousands of students and numerous independent schools, and she helped establish a programme to send pupils in the ARK Schools network to the US on scholarships. She is active in the non-profit community in Boston, where she is from, and has volunteered with Year Up, an organisation specialising in career development, for nearly two decades.