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Through its global network of affiliated schools, International House provides many opportunities for development of a professional career in ELT

Michael Noonan BA (Hons), MSc, Chair

Michael has worked in financial services, consulting and retailing in the UK, Japan, Middle East, Switzerland and China. Michael was a member of UBS for 14 years and has worked in financial and retail institutions in the UK, Japan, Switzerland and Turkey. He is currently acting as an Organisational Development consultant for arts organisations, educational organisations, audience development agencies and county councils around the UK. Other non-executive roles include: Trustee and Director to Arts Worldwide; Trustee London East Aids Network; Vice Chair/Trustee to the Performing Rights Society Foundation; Trustee to Beaconsfield Contemporary Arts Trust; Trustee to the Entelechy Arts Trust; Trustee Poet in the City. He has been chair of IH World Organisation a number of times.

Anne Peters BA – Vice-Chair

As a librarian of twenty-five years, Anne had extensive experience as a teacher and librarian in Europe and the United Kingdom prior to becoming the Head of Information Services at the Institute of Education in 1998. Anne contributes to library initiatives at a regional and national level and has been Deputy Chair of the University of London Libraries Committee and a member of the M25 Consortium of Higher Education Libraries Steering Group.

Matthew Bullock MA (Cambridge), Harvard Business School, Advanced Management Programme

Before becoming Chief Executive with the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society, Matthew had a broad banking career, spanning investment banking, credit risk management, retail banking and corporate banking at senior levels in the Barclays group. He is non-executive Chairman of the Automation Partnership Group PLC, a high-tech manufacturing company.

Deborah Cameron, BA, M.Litt, AcSS

Deborah is an academic and writer whose specialist subject is the English language. Since 1983 she has taught English and linguistics at universities in the UK, US and Sweden, as well as being involved in a number of programmes specifically for ELT professionals in Eastern Europe and in Malaysia. She is currently Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford.

Anne Chan MBE, MSc, CELTA

Anne's public sector career spans teaching and social work services in the UK and consultancy in Russia and Hong Kong. Former Head of Children’s Services in Southwark and Director of CAFCASS, a national court advisory body. Wide experience in the voluntary sector, includes non-executive roles in Chinese community organisations and Governor of Peabody Trust.

Angela Dean, MA, D. Phil (Oxon)

Angela has worked in international finance for over 25 years. As a managing director at Morgan Stanley since 1995, she specialised in technology companies and became Global Head of Technology Research. In 2005, she was appointed Director for Socially Responsible Investment. Angela has a doctorate in early 17th century politics.

Michael Elger MA (Oxford) MBA (Insead)

Michael is Chief Executive of Three Raymond Buildings, a leading barristers’ chambers. Previously he worked as a corporate strategist at the Boston Consulting Group and as an investment banker at Lazard, where he was responsible for developing the firm’s mergers and acquisitions practice in the life sciences sector.

Carol Madison Graham, M.A. Arab Studies, M.A. History, Georgetown University

Carol is a former US diplomat who has worked in the field of international education for many years. She is a trustee for several organisations with an international focus including the International Institute for Environment and Development. She has lived in a number of countries in the Middle East and Europe. Carol is currently publishing a book for US students embarking on a year abroad.

Chris Greenwood

Chris is Director of External Affairs at The Fostering Network. He is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, King’s College, London, a Kennedy Scholar having attended Harvard University as a Visiting Fellow in 1996 and took his CELTA at International House, London in 1993.

Jeremy Harmer BA (Hons), MA Applied Linguistics

A former IH teacher and director of the Instituto of Anglo Mexicano de Cultura, Jeremy is an extensive traveller and occasional lecturer at Anglia Polytechnic University. He is also a successful and published author of many methodology books for teachers and student textbooks.

Colin McMillan

Colin's links with IH date from the 1960's when a small group of like-minded language school owners from various countries in and around Europe met in Shaftesbury Avenue and formed a loose alliance which quickly grew into the IH World Organisation. His career has been in Portugal since 1963 when he founded his first school in Lisbon. Since then he has been involved in setting up or affiliating a further 10 schools in major cities in Portugal.

Edward Prosser

Edward’s background is in educational management. After 17 years in Brussels, helping design and implement grant programmes to support international cooperation between education institutions (eg ERASMUS) he returned to the UK in 1998 to work as part of the founding team which established Ufi/learndirect and then worked in NHS organisations concerned with staff development and training. He continues consultancy work, mainly related to technology in education.