Dr Chris McNab

Dr Chris McNab is the director of the publishing and educational consultancy Colourblue Ltd and has 27 years of experience as an author, publishing consultant, development editor, project manager and educator.

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• Author: He is the author of more than 120 non-fiction titles, his international readers ranging from children to academics, and he is an equally experienced editor and publishing project manager in both trade and education sectors.

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• Project manager/editor: In the educational project manager and development editor roles, he has developed numerous titles, series and print/digital resources across the K–12 range, as well as providing related expertise in curriculum and assessment design.

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• Trainer/consultant: As an education reform trainer and consultant, Chris has contributed to or led major international capacity-building projects, training hundreds of educators in publishing skills and teaching approaches and guiding the in-country development of core classroom resources in countries such as Mongolia, Kazakhstan, the UAE, Oman, Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia.

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• EdTech roles: Recent educational technology roles include: Course Director on the Middle Eastern Cohort of the HP Cambridge Partnership for Education EdTech Fellowship (nominated for a BETT award 2025); Consultant for the HP Cambridge Partnership for Education EdTech Fellowship alumni network programme; Project Lead on The Falaj Project, a digital innovation programme between Cambridge Partnership for Education, Google Education and the Omani Ministry of Education to innovate in the design of remote/hybrid teaching through a fusion of Cambridge digital content and Google Classroom functionality.

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• Communications: Chris also delivers communication training to a variety of educational, publishing and commercial organisations, and has provided to-camera commentary for documentaries produced by Sky, Discovery and The History Channel.

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Select clients, customers and partners
Cambridge University Press and Assessment; Cambridge Partnership for Education; Ministry of Education and Science Mongolia; Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools (Kazakhstan); Oxford University Press; The Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology (Thailand); Ministry of Education of the Sultanate of Oman; Pearson Education; Heinemann; Nelson Thornes; Penguin Group; Bloomsbury; Dorling Kindersley; Barnes & Noble; Quarto/Marshall Editions; Casemate; Scholastic; Grolier; Mason Crest; The History Press; Osprey Publishing; Macmillan; Fitzroy Dearborn; British Heart Foundation; Her Majesty’s Court Service; Crown Prosecution Service; LA Fitness; Discovery Channel; Sky TV; History Channel.