Plenary Speakers
Tuesday 13 October - Opening plenary
Dr. Francisco Márquez Villanueva
Biography:
Arthur Kingsley Porter Research Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus at Harvard University. Dr. Márquez Villanueva was member of a commission at the University of Tel Aviv in order to study how to relate convivence in medieval Spain (Muslim, Christian and Jew) with the present situation in Middle East.
Wednesday 14 October - Plenary
Andy Hargreaves
Biography:
Andrew Hargreaves (born 13 February 1951) is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. The mission of the Chair is to promote social justice and connect theory and practice in education. Andy Hargreaves’s teaching and research at Boston College concentrates on sustainable leadership, professional learning communities, educational change and the emotions of teaching.
Andy Hargreaves grew up in a working class community in the small Lancashire textile and engineering town of Accrington in England – famous for its legendary football club, Accrington Stanley. Andy went to school at Spring Hill Primary School where the teacher in his last year, Mary Hindle, was one of his greatest sources of inspiration to become an educator. The youngest of three brothers, Andy was the first in his extended family history to move on to higher education – studying sociology at Sheffield University.
Professor Hargreaves qualified for and went on to teach primary school before studying for (and some years later) completing his Ph.D. thesis in Sociology at the University of Leeds in England. He then lectured in a number of English universities including Oxford until in 1987 he moved to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Canada, where he co-founded and directed the International Center for Educational Change. From 2000-2002, he was also Professor of Educational Leadership and Change at the University of Nottingham in England.
Professor Hargreaves has authored or edited more than 25 books which have been translated into a dozen languages. Andy Hargreaves’ book Teaching In The Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity, is published by Teachers’ College Press and Open University Press and has received the Choice Outstanding Book Award from the American Libraries Association for Teaching and the American Educational Research Association Division B Outstanding Book Award. His new book with Dean Fink Sustainable Leadership is published by JosseyBass/Wiley.
Andy now lives close to Boston, Massachusetts with his wife Pauline who is also an educator. Their children both live in Toronto, Canada — their son is completing a PhD at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, and their daughter is a policy analyst for the Ontario government.
Thursday 15 October - Plenary Panel
The important relationship of Heads of IB schools in today’s IB
The role of Heads in the IB has undergone considerable change in recent years, and further changes are being proposed. These changes will be the subject of a panel discussion and question-and-answer session featuring:
Carol Bellamy (Chair of the IB Board of Governors)
Jeff Beard (Director General of the IB)
Tony Flatley (IB Ombudsman, ex-Chair of the International Heads Representative Committee)
Michael Matthews (Chair, Heads Council) (IBAEM
Sally Holloway (Member, Heads Council) (IBAP)
Al Penna (Member, Heads Council) (IB Americas – North)
Lorna Prado (Member, Heads Council) (IB Americas – South)
Friday 16 October - Plenary
Carol Bellamy
Biography:
Carol Bellamy is the President and CEO of World Learning, a private, non-profit organization comprised of three operating program units–The Experiment in International Living, SIT (the accredited higher education institution of World Learning), and International Development Programs. World Learning promotes international and intercultural understanding and fosters global citizenship through education, training, exchange and development activities in over 75 countries.
Bellamy previously served 10 years as Executive Director of UNICEF, the children’s agency of the United Nations. She was also the first former volunteer to become Director of the Peace Corps.
Bellamy has worked in the private sector at Bear, Stearns & Co., Morgan Stanley, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore. She spent 13 years as an elected public official, including five years in the New York State Senate. In 1978, she became the first woman to be elected to citywide office in New York City when she was elected President of the NYC Council, a position she held until 1985. Bellamy was named to Forbes magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Women in the World in 2004. In 2009, Bellamy was awarded the Légion d’Honneur by the Government of France.
