Samira Sadeghi is Director of Trust Governance for CST. Prior to that, she was head of hovernance and company secretary at Academies Enterprise Trust, a multi-academy trust with 57 schools., and served as regional governance officer at Ark Schools for four years. Before moving to the UK with her family in 2010, she was a criminal defence attorney and spent 12 years representing clients on California's death row in their post-conviction proceedings.