In a career of forty years, Andy Homden has worked in some of the most prominent international schools in the world both as a teacher and leader. Having graduated with a degree in Modern History from Oxford, where he also trained as a teacher, he taught in the UK before starting his international career at Island School in Hong Kong. Leadership appointments followed at the British School in Jakarta where he was Head of Secondary and then as Director of Schools at the Alice Smith School in Kuala Lumpur. Headships followed at Enka Schools in Istanbul, Bangkok Patana School and then in Dubai with Taaleem LLC, as Principal of Dubai British School and founding Principal of Jumeira Baccalaureate School. He is the founder and CEO of Consilium Education, a specialist group of consultants advising emerging international school. Andy is currently the international education consultant to the DPS-STS school in Dhaka, Bangladesh, assisting the Board and Senior Leadership Team with the development of the Cambridge International and Early Years Foundation Stage curricula, teacher and leadership training, online learning, policy development and strategic planning. Andy took his Master’s degree in Education at the University of Western Australia, specialising in curriculum design and the leadership of change. In 2016, he was awarded the Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing by the Digital Marketing Institute. Recent assignments with Consilium Education have included studies for new projects in Japan, Russia, Latvia and China.