Our Team

 

From Melbourne, Australia, Tim joins AISM with over 30 years of experience. Prior to taking up roles as a Principal overseas, he was Principal of Fahan School in Hobart, Tasmania for almost 14 years. He has also served as Headmaster at Toowoomba Preparatory School and Head of Primary at All Saints Anglican School in Queensland. Most recently, Tim was Principal of Ecole Mondiale World School in Mumbai.

 

He has led two international schools in Dubai - Raffles International School and Uptown School Mirdif. During his tenure at Uptown, he oversaw the relocation and development of the school to a new site, along with significant population growth and numerous educational accreditations.

 

Ivan has been an educator for over 25 years. In this time, he has predominantly worked in boarding and day schools in Perth, Western Australia. His leadership accomplishments include being Head of Mathematics, Learning Technologies Manager, and the Head of Middle Years while serving at Hale School. He was also Associate Principal Senior School for 9 years at Peter Moyes Anglican Community School.

 

His studies have focused on the use of ICT in education (particularly, but not limited to STEM subjects) as well as strategic planning and management issues. He is particularly interested in nurturing leadership amongst his staff and students.

 

Upon completion of ten years studying and working in the UK, she returned to Malaysia to work for Western Digital, leading the implementation of HRM payroll and the electronic time recording system to manage an increased headcount to 6000 employees.

 

Her first exposure to the education industry was in Singapore and later joined KDU Smart School in Malaysia. From 2008 to 2013, Lesley further developed her commercial financial experience working with Ernst and Young before returning to the education sector in 2013 when she was involved in the operations and logistics for the start-up of another international school. Lesley joined AISM in December 2015 as the Head of Operations.

 

After dedicating her foundation years of teaching to disadvantaged schools in Melbourne's northern suburbs, Leigh has learnt the importance of creating a personalised learning environment, while getting to know each student's interests, thinking processes, preferred learning styles, backgrounds and families.

 

Leigh has been teaching for 13 years and has passion for teaching all levels of the Junior School, drawing upon a strong information and communication technologies (ICT) teaching knowledge. Challenges excite her, particularly while working with students for whom English is an additional language (EAL), as well as those with special needs. Leigh is married and has two young children. She enjoys swimming, netball and a good nasi lemak!

 

James has taught and led learning at schools in Malaysia and Australia, across a range of curriculums, including HSC, ACARA, IGCSE, IBDP, QCA and BSSS. This includes a previous nine-year tenure at AISM from 2007 to 2016. James is a Visible Learning enthusiast and he also has a passion for World Scholar’s Cup and Model United Nations. James places relationships at the centre of his practice and has a keen interest in the pastoral care and development of every student. For his previous work in international affairs, James was acknowledged with the award of Young Australian of the Year 2003 (QLD) and Gold Coast Young Citizen of the Year 2002.