Matthew Goldie-Scot

Spear’s Review

Former academic Matthew Goldie-Scot joined the multinational educational consultancy Thuso Group in 2020 after having spent almost a decade at Carfax Education, where he founded its strategic consultancy arm and subsequently served as group managing director.

‘In private client work – be it education planning for families or in the context of investments – honesty,  transparency and open dialogue are key,’ Goldie-Scot tells Spear’s.

With experience in emerging markets in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, as well as Western Europe and the US, Goldie-Scot is an expert resource for private clients and family offices seeking to establish educational institutions.

Adviser Profile

Matthew serves as managing director at Thuso, a leading international strategic consultancy focused on education, philanthropy, and investment in these sectors, and in emerging markets, with offices in London, the EU, the UAE, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Born in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho, he attended school in Kampala, Uganda, and went on to study at both Cambridge and Oxford.

Matthew has advised numerous families on the operation, expansion, sale and acquisition of education holdings. He has also provided extensive guidance to families on their own educational planning, supporting candidates in securing places on leading executive education programmes, as well as at the world’s finest schools and universities. He has also supported the development of education-focused indices and rankings catering to HNWIs and family office advisers, including those of Spear’s and Knight Frank. His views on education are frequently reported in the national and international press.

In the past year, Matthew has developed a growing client base in the Pacific Islands, as well as clients with interests in the Asia-Pacific Region more broadly. He has also undertaken increased work in Ethiopia, and Africa more broadly, including work with foundations throughout the continent, with a particular focus on advising on Continental Strategies for Education in Africa, engaging closely with the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa. He has also continued to support Thuso’s portfolio in areas affected by conflict, particularly in Ukraine and the Middle East.

Matthew continues to oversee a range of work in Central Asia, where he was awarded the Uzbekistan State Medal, Xalq Ta’lim Fidoyisi, the highest national award for contributions to the field of education.

Matthew also prepared a range of key reports for successive Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings (CHOGM), and has recently served as editor of a number of legal publications, including research into Corruption in the Caribbean, and the development of an international Guidebook on Mediation. He also advises a range of philanthropic organisations, and served six years on the Board of PEAS, which provides schooling to approximately 15,000 pupils in East Africa.