Mr Shaw is a Teacher of Physics at KCLMS. He has a Physics degree from Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD in France.

After a career in consulting and a range of marketing, strategy and finance roles in large companies including 6 years at Diageo, he set up, ran and subsequently sold an exhibitions business.

He also acquired a controlling interest in a commercial property company offering small business units and artist studios in London which he continues to run two days per week. In 2017, after a 30-year gap, he returned to his first love – physics, training as a teacher at West London Free School where he worked until joining KCLMS in 2021. He enjoys sailing, skiing, theatre and cooking.