Tom Ogg is the author of Boxing Clever, his account of teaching teenagers at the London Boxing Academy Community Project (LBACP) in Tottenham, North London, who had been expelled from school.  The aim of the LBACP was to make use of the strong relationships that boxing coaches have with wayward young men. 

Tom was employed to worked that LBACP by the Westminster think-tank Civitas, who published Boxing Clever in September 2012.  Tom has also taught on the Civitas Schools programme, and at Footsteps Football Academy.  He is also a governor of the East London Science School, a Free School due to open in September 2013.

Tom is now a pupil barrister at a leading commercial set of chambers in the Temple, London. Whilst training to be a barrister, Tom set up the City/4-5 School Exclusions Project (www.city.ac.uk/schoolexclusions), which provides representation to pupils who are appealing against their permanent exclusion from mainstream schools. He was also part of the miscarriage of justice campaign for Sam Hallam (www.samhallam.com), who was released from prison in 2012 following the quashing of his conviction for murder by the Court of Appeal.