William Archer
Chief Executive Officer
i-graduate founder Will Archer has over 20 years' experience of international education and recruitment, combined with 22 years of qualitative and quantitative market research and assessment. He has worked as HR consultant to multinational corporations and governments, as advisor to some of the world's best-known universities and business schools and as an independent expert for NGOs and charities.
In the 1990s, William pioneered the use of consortia recruitment to reverse the brain drain from Asia and initiated a wave of studies into the attitudes and aspirations of internationally-educated students. He also led initiatives to encourage exiles and recent graduates to return to the new South Africa and other African nations. In 1998 he created The Global Workplace, a recruiting network for alumni of the world’s leading business schools.
An alumnus of London Business School and former head of education practice at recruitment specialist Barkers Norman Broadbent, William is non-executive chairman of Tokyo-based strategy house GTFKK.