Author profiles

Dang Phuong Dung is the Country Manager in Vietnam for Cambridge Assessment International Education. Before joining Cambridge, she was the CEO of a consulting company in the education sector on school improvement, curriculum development and teacher training in maths. Her background is in finance and leadership management. She runs a maths club and a handmade centre for children during her free time.

Prior to working in higher education, David taught in schools and colleges for over 16 years. He is interested in all aspects of teacher professional development but has a particular passion for helping teachers engage with some of the most hard to reach students.

Dr Anthony Dawson is Deputy Director, Assessment Standards and Quality with Cambridge International. After university, Anthony taught Physics in the Maldives for a number of years before beginning a career in assessment. He has been working in various roles within Cambridge Assessment for the last 26 years, 20 of which have been with Cambridge International. Initially he managed our portfolio of Physics and Computing syllabuses. As Deputy Director, Assessment Standards and Quality, he is now responsible for the standards of our qualifications.

Born and raised in Greece, Lilian soon discovered her love of living abroad after gaining a scholarship to go to Berlin for a few months. Since then, she has lived in Canada, Turkey and the UK. In a former life Lilian was an archaeologist working in excavations and teaching archaeology at universities in Canada and Turkey while completing her PhD. Her first book based on her doctoral research is coming out in a few weeks. Lilian is also an accomplished publishing and assessment professional having worked as a translator, copy-editor, editorial consultant and assessment manager for 15 years, the last 7 of those at Cambridge University Press & Assessment. She recently made yet another career change to take up her current role as Head of Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging for International Education which combines her knowledge of education with her studies in anthropology. Living with a hidden disability has made her very passionate about accessibility, inclusion and the lived experience of other people. She speaks 4 languages, and she is the mother of a very energetic 3-year-old boy who keeps her on her toes!

James de Winter works at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge leading the Secondary Physics PGCE initial teacher education course as well as teaching on the Primary PGCE course.

James leads work matching Cambridge International Examination’s education system improvement capability with national level consultancy and project requirements. James’s previous experience includes responsibility for the design and delivery of services supporting education reforms in the UK and internationally for OCR and Pearson. He was a senior policy advisor at the Equality and Human Rights Commission and has taught inter-disciplinary research methodology courses at Cambridge University.

Lee is Deputy Director, Education at Cambridge International Examinations. Prior to joining us in 2014, he held several high profile positions including Director of Academic Planning at The Aga Khan Academies and Head of Online Professional Learning at the International Baccalaureate Organisation.

Minal Desai aka the MasterNi is a second- generation 'Edupreneur' who builds schools for the future. She is a thinker, a doer and most of all a change maker. An enthusiast of systematic change, the MasterNi wants to create a vibrant community of passionate and empathetic people. And in order to do so, she sets a high standard for herself and the school which in turn pushes the limits of what is possible within a school. Besides Gems Genesis International School, she also helps with the operations and design of other schools in the city including Genius Gems, Shivashish World School and Wallaroos Tot Atelier. Her Youtube channel-Musings of a MasterNi is dedicated to the new-age education in India and through it, she voices her experiences shaped by students, teachers, and parents. She is an avid reader and off the clock, you might spot her diving into a documentary or a Bollywood movie, philosophising over chai, or playfully debating the real purpose of algebra. Who said reshaping education couldn’t be a blast?

Richard Driscoll is the Academic Deputy Principal at Shenzhen College of International Education in China’s Guangdong province. The school was established in 2003 and offers Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge International AS, and, A-Level courses. The school has more than 1,800 students. and over 180 teaching staff from more than a dozen countries.

Vidula is the Marketing and Communications Manager at Cambridge International Assessment International Education. She is in-charge of the all the Marketing and Communications activities for the South Asia region including India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. She holds a Post Graduate Degree in Business Design and her areas of interest are social media marketing, PR and design thinking.