Ian Philip Evans OBE FRSC (born 2 May 1948) is an educationalist and former Headmaster of Bedford School in England.[1] Born and educated in North Wales, he read Natural Sciences at Churchill College, Cambridge and obtained a PhD in inorganic chemistry from Imperial College, London,[2] working in the laboratory of Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson. He then taught chemistry at St Paul's School, London. In 1991 he was appointed as Headmaster of Bedford School, a position which he held until the summer of 2008. He was also appointed as a government advisor on education, from which post he retired in 1999,[3] and was subsequently awarded an OBE for his work. He is currently an appointed member of the council of the Royal Society of Chemistry.[4]
I. P. Evans, A. Spencer, & G. Wilkinson "Dichlorotetrakis(dimethyl sulfoxide)ruthenium(II) and its use as a source material for new ruthenium(II) complexes" Jrnl. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans. (1973) 204-209 [5]