Brian Peter Leon Lightman FRSA (born 15 June 1955)[1][2] is a British trade union leader who is the former General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL, based in Leicester).
At the University of Southampton he gained a BA in German in 1978 and a Modern Languages PGCE in 1979.
He taught German and French from 1979-84 at Hazelwick School in Crawley in West Sussex.
From 1989-91 he was Curriculum Development Manager and from 1991-95 Deputy Head at St Martin's School, Brentwood.
He succeeded John Dunford, who had been there since 1998, and who is now involved with the pupil premium.