Andy Mellor is National Wellbeing Director for Schools Advisory Service and was previously the Strategic Lead for the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools at Leeds Beckett University. He has been the Independent Chair of the Blackpool MAT CEO group, and was a member of the Blackpool Opportunity Area Board.

He was previously the headteacher of St Nicholas C of E Primary School in Blackpool, where he implemented a programme of change that prioritised improving the wellbeing of the teachers and children in the school, with remarkable results.