Welcome from the
Principal
Queen Elizabeth’s School, Dubai Sports City
Our mission is to nurture confident, able and responsible young people; prepared to lead happy and fulfilled adult lives and to make a positive contribution to others.
Our academic standards are exacting. An enhanced rigorous British education is taught by expert faculty who combine intellectual depth with genuine care. Precision in teaching, rich assessment, and purposeful extension create a culture where curiosity, resilience and high attainment flourish.
Our commitment is genuinely holistic and excellence is expected across scholarship, sport, the creative and performing arts, and service. Set within Dubai Sports City, students benefit from world-class facilities and professional coaching, including football, swimming and golf, alongside athletics and racket sports.
Extra-curricular participation is broad, pathways for high performance are clear, and character is shaped through commitment and teamwork.
QE signature programmes give our promises real substance. QE House builds identity, leadership and service; QE Flourish develops character through the strands Care, Challenge, Create and Compete; QE Futures gives early exposure to the world of work and expert guidance to leading universities and employers. Together, they produce well-rounded, principled and future-ready young people.
We warmly invite you to visit and experience a school that unites centuries of academic excellence with the ambition of Dubai, and that prepares students to shape the future with confidence, ability and responsibility.
Meet Our Executive Governing Body
Queen Elizabeth’s School, Dubai Sports City is governed by an Executive Governing Body composed of distinguished stakeholders who bring strategic vision, educational expertise, cultural insight and financial stewardship. This diverse and high-calibre board reflects the School’s ongoing commitment to delivering a world-class education to support the School’s mission to nurture confident, able and responsible young people.
The School Principal is guided and supported by the Executive Governing Body of Queen Elizabeth’s School, Dubai Sports City. The Executive Governing Body includes:
Neil Enright has served as Headmaster of Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet since 2011, leading one of the UK’s most academically accomplished grammar schools. Under his leadership, the school consistently ranks at the top nationally for academic performance, while maintaining a clear focus on character development and values-based education. Beyond his role at Barnet, Mr Enright contributes to the governance of other leading British independent schools.
Nick Gaskell has served as a governor at Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet since 1998, becoming Vice-Chair in 2016 and Chair of Governors in 2023. A chartered accountant and former partner at Saffery Champness, where he also completed a four-year term as Chairman, he brings extensive financial acumen and corporate governance expertise. Having chaired the School’s Finance, Audit & Risk Committee, he continues to provide robust oversight, strategic direction, and fiduciary stewardship, ensuring academic integrity and institutional resilience.
Dr. Vishwajeet Rana is the Group CEO of GEDU. He holds an MBA from Ohio University and both an MS and PhD from Stevens Institute of Technology. Earlier in his career, he worked at HSBC’s New York office, where he executed complex cross-border equity and debt-structured investments and financing transactions across the UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and Hong Kong.
Passionate about the transformative role of education, Dr. Rana actively studies global education models and applies them to expand access and unlock student potential through higher education. In recognition of his contributions to widening participation and advancing social mobility, he was appointed in 2025 as an Honorary Member of the Advisory Board of UNITAR’s Division for People and Social Inclusion.
Dr. Rana is also an author. His works include the textbook Dr Rana on Applied Corporate Valuation & Financial Modelling and the forthcoming co-authored volume Our Coastal Heritage: Conserving the World’s Shores for People & Nature.
Lady Gabriella Windsor is a prominent author and philanthropist. She advises Latin American companies expanding into the UK (and vice-versa), drawing from her experience living in the region and from her work with Latin America’s public and private sectors over the past 12 years. Lady Gabriella is an accomplished writer, having featured in several prominent UK media outlets including the Sunday Telegraph, the Evening Standard, Country Life, The Spectator, and The London Magazine. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown University and an MPhil in Social Anthropology from Linacre College, Oxford.
His Excellency Dr. Abdullah Belhaif Al Nuaimi is a senior Emirati statesman and academic, formerly serving as UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment and Minister of Infrastructure Development. A leading voice in sustainability and public policy, he brings national expertise and strategic insight to the board. He also leads the school’s commitment to Emirati Excellence, ensuring the success and inclusion of Emirati students remains a priority.
Caroline Pendleton-Nash is an internationally recognised education strategist and policy advisor with a distinguished career spanning the private and public sectors across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. As CEO of Queen Elizabeth’s Global Schools, she leads the school’s global expansion strategy, ensuring every international campus embodies the academic distinction and cultural legacy of Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet.
Educated at George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh, and the University of St Andrews, Dan Clark has held senior leadership positions since 2008 at two of the UK’s leading independent schools, Repton and Marlborough College. Dan has developed a reputation for academic rigour, innovation, and a deep commitment to nurturing both excellence and character. Colleagues and pupils alike value his clarity of purpose, intellectual ambition and ability to build teams that deliver consistently high standards. Dan’s educational philosophy is grounded in the belief that genuine achievement arises when high expectations are balanced with warmth, curiosity and integrity. He is dedicated to helping young people think deeply, act responsibly and contribute meaningfully to an ever-changing world.