Leadership Team
Early Years team
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WISSWide Directors and Heads of Department
Primary team
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Secondary team
school board

Chair
Jin Hong Jian is a leading member of the business community in Shanghai, with interests in construction and development, as well as education. A former lecturer in mathematics, Mr. Jian is involved in a number of international schools and is very passionate about 21st-century education.
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Tim Guo is a Taiwanese-American businessman and school leader, with interests around the world. Mr. Guo is on the Board of numerous international schools and spends much of his time planning new educational development. The George Guo Building is named in honor of Mr. Guo’s father.
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Member (ex officio)
Dr. Greg Brunton has been an educator since 1996 and worked with schools in Florida until 2005 when he decided to move into the international arena. Greg has been an IB educator since 2005 and was Elementary School Principal at the K International School Tokyo, a full IB continuum school similar to WISS.
He joined WISS as the Primary School Principal in 2012. Greg holds bachelor degrees in Elementary Education and Public Administration, a Masters degree in K-8 Math and Science Education, and a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership.
His dissertation focused on collaboration within intercultural professional learning communities. He is an Adjunct Professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, USA, teaching onsite and online classes on teacher supervision and data-based decision making.
In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter. He also enjoys playing an extremely rare contra bass clarinet in the WISS Community Orchestra.
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academic advisory board

Special Advisor to the WISS School Board and Co-Chair of the WISS Academic Advisory Board
Professor Davis is a leading academic and one of the most respected Chinese-Americans in the US. She has served as the Vice President of Drexel University, Vice Dean and founder of the Graduate School of Education for the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently Special Advisor to the President of the Teachers College, Columbia University, Special Advisor to President of the University of Pennsylvania, and Senior Advisor to the Shanghai Government. Professor Davis is one of the most renowned scholars on East-West relations and philosophy relating to education, founding the Eight Nations Education Research Project to cooperate on educational policy and chairing education roundtables with leading professors and ministers from the US, China, France, New Zealand, and Thailand. For her work in the field of education, Professor Davis has received numerous awards including the President’s Award for Excellence in Leadership from Drexel University, the first University of Pennsylvania Alumni Pioneers Award, and the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education by the government of Thailand.
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Co-Chair of the WISS Academic Advisory Board
After serving as Co-Chair of the WISS Academic Advisory until 2021, Mr. Kelly passed away in March 2021, due to complications from COVID-19. He was a loved and valued member of the WISS community and will not be soon forgotten.
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Professor Hartmann is a German educationalist, Emeritus Professor of Comparative and International Education at the University of Hamburg, and President of the General Synod of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD). He is a former Director of the Institute of Language Teaching and the Institute for Comparative Education at the University of Hamburg and was the university’s Vice President for seven years. He was the vice-chair of the governing board and the executive committee of the UNESCO-Institute of Education for nine years. Professor Hartmann represents the University of Hamburg in the European University Foundation in Luxembourg and holds visiting professorships in Riga, Kaunas, and Luxembourg.
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Founding Academic Advisory board

Dr. Murphy is one of the most accomplished professors at Harvard and has written extensively on the politics of education over the last five decades. The former Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Dr. Murphy is currently the Harold Howe II Professor of Education and serves as a member of the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children.
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Dr. John DeFlaminis is Executive Director of the Penn Center for Educational Leadership. As Superintendent of the Radnor Township School System, one of the best performing systems in the United States, Dr. DeFlaminis developed standards-based systems with international benchmarks.
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Professor Davis is a leading academic and one of the most respected Chinese-Americans in the US. She has served as the Vice President of Drexel University, Vice Dean and founder of the Graduate School of Education for the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently Special Advisor to the President of the Teachers College, Columbia University, Special Advisor to President of the University of Pennsylvania, and Senior Advisor to the Shanghai Government. Professor Davis is one of the most renowned scholars on East-West relations and philosophy relating to education, founding the Eight Nations Education Research Project to cooperate on educational policy and chairing education roundtables with leading professors and ministers from the US, China, France, New Zealand, and Thailand. For her work in the field of education, Professor Davis has received numerous awards including the President’s Award for Excellence in Leadership from Drexel University, the first University of Pennsylvania Alumni Pioneers Award, and the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education by the government of Thailand.
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The former Director General of Education in Singapore, Dr. Yip was the Executive Director of the Singapore Institute of Management and established the Singapore International School in Hong Kong, on whose foundation board he still serves. Among many honors, he has been awarded Singapore’s Gold Medal for Public Administration and France’s Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academique.
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