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Leader stories: Chris Russell

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Chris Russell was formerly headteacher of the Astor College of Arts and is now chief executive of the Dover Federation for the Arts.

After spells of playing cricket with Kent and Surrey broken by a short service commission in the Army, Chris Russell moved into education and has spent his career entirely in schools in challenging circumstances. In 1988 came to Astor College of Arts as head and then became chief executive of the Dover Federation for the Arts, comprising Astor College, White Cliffs Primary College for the Arts, Shatterlocks Infant School and Nursery, Barton Junior School and KETV Film and Sound Studio. He runs the National Student’s Art Exhibition in the Mall Galleries, London, and has produced 22 joint International musicals around the world. So what motivates him?