Speakers

Mr. Ian Davies
Head of School
Garodia International Centre for Learning Mumbai

Mr. Ian Davies is the Head of School at Garodia International Centre for Learning Mumbai. Prior to GICLM, he was the Principal of a DP & MYP Secondary School in Jakarta. Ian has worked previously in the UK, Malawi, Poland, Russia and Indonesia for over 25 years. Still a passionate teacher of History and Theory of Knowledge, his professional interests revolve very much around classroom and pedagogical practices. An avid Liverpool supporter, Ian looks forward to bring in the enthusiasm like that in any sport and combine it with a genuine holistic educational experience drawing on values education whilst delivering a strong academic foundation within an international environment. For him, education means providing the environment that harnesses the vitality and idealism of everyone in the community; students to teachers, parents to administrators, including the support staff. He strongly believes that ethical education provides foundation not only for individual opportunity and success but for a more peaceful, honorable and creative world where people accentuate what they have in common and value differences as points of interest and shared understandings. Ian comes with 37 years of experience in the education sector having chaired the Indonesian Diploma Schools network and having coordinated (DP, MYP & PYP groups) annual teacher training discussions which is the third largest IB gathering worldwide. He also has successfully built IB programs in schools with high academic achievements and been proud of students winning international accolades for Service projects. One of the extraordinary feats that he has accomplished is being invited to the White House to receive the US Presidential Teachers Award for his outstanding contribution to teaching. He is an IBEN approved educator. A current IB examiner he enjoys working with schools as a consultant and is a workshop leader and trainer. He was previously the IB Schools Ambassador for Indonesia. For the past 3 years Ian has been appointed as Dean of Garodia International College, a unique opportunity to study a US degree in India. Having been a University Lecturer in the UK and working with international universities for many years, this is an important project for the organization. His specific interest areas include: Learning and Teaching, Leadership, and Values Education, International mindedness / cultural education and the International Baccalaureate (IB). Originally from UK and currently working towards a PhD on Values Education with the University of Bath, he is a much sought after contributor to schools, workshops and conferences worldwide.

Dr. Sue Richards 
Director
EDU Consultancy Services

Dr. Sue Richards is the Director of EDU Consultancy Services, a company that provides services internationally in education from early years through to higher education. Current projects include learning design and development, strategic planning, conference presentations, guest lectures and professional learning for teachers in national and IB world schools and for university lecturers. Sue is a lecturer at Flinders University in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work in the Graduate Certificate of Education and the Master of Education. She offers specialist courses in IB education to both pre and post service teachers. She is also enrolled in the Doctor of Education program where her research interests include technology and learning, international education and school leadership. Sue is the International Baccalaureate Educator Certificates Representative for the Asia Pacific region where she mentors university faculty in the design, development and documentation of undergraduate and post graduate courses in IB education, chairs and participates in course accreditation panels and reviews and evaluates IB tertiary courses. She has held global leadership roles in the US and Singapore, where she led a globally distributed teams of learning designers, online specialist and subject matter experts in the end to end design, development and delivery of online, face to face, and blended multidisciplinary workshops for a global audience of PYP, MYP, DP and CP educators and leaders in over 150 countries. She has held several school leadership roles in Australia, ranging from international student recruitment, HR management and teaching and learning leadership. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has served on boards. She has also held the role of regional curriculum advisor to school systems in Australia. She began her career in education as a secondary school EAL teacher and lecturer in the Graduate Certificate of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages at the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of South Australia, and as an IB DP and MYP French teacher having graduated with a bilingual degree (French / English) from Glendon College, York University in Toronto.