Keith was a government adviser from 2006-2009 and the lead writer on the Curriculum Review Diversity and Citizenship, which made a series of recommendations aimed at promoting diversity across the school’s curriculum.  

His report concluded that all young people should be able to feel that the ethnic, religious and cultural aspects of their identity are recognised and understood and also gave way to the Who Do We Think We Are? project, which explored subjects including belonging, faith and Britishness. 

Keith received an OBE for services to education in 1996 and was knighted in 2007; and graduated with two degrees at Birkbeck in MA Culture, Diaspora and Ethnicity and Contemporary Literature and Culture. 

He served as Head of Deptford Green School for 20 years and is now Chair of Blueprint for All (formerly the Stephen Lawrence Trust) and Trustee of APIE, a small education charity working in Rwanda.