Karl Yin
Chairman
Karl started his career in the Financial sector in FX trading and investment banking before joining the Education sector. Education has been his life-long passion. Karl has been involved as a non-executive director in his family business Hualan Education Group since 2012, where his role was to oversee group strategy. In early 2013 he decided to take the family business to next level by expanding the family business from early years to K12 stage, and he initiated the collaboration between Hualan Education Group and the Sutton Valence School in the UK. After 4 years of planning and hard work, HIKSVS International School Tianjin successfully launched in August 2017. Karl became the Vice Chairman for the family business in late 2016.
In 2017 Karl led the Hualan Education Group collaboration with the Westleigh Investment Group in the UK and founded WCBS China and Eurus with the Chairman of Westleigh - Giles Clarke CBE.
WCBS is a British company with 36 years of experience and has distinctive expertise in providing information management systems for top independent schools, and Eurus is a leading recruitment organisation in education sector.
Karl is the founder and Chairman of the Hualan Scholarship , and he is also Chairman of the International Advisory Board for the School of Education in the University of Buckingham.
David Mansfield
Dean of Buckingham International School of Education
David Mansfield is a respected Headmaster whose experience spans a wide range of schools and educational institutions in the UK and internationally. He has successfully led four different schools, most recently the Chinese international school in Shanghai, YKPao School. Before that he was headmaster of Dulwich College Beijing. In the UK, David led two ‘outstanding’ secondary schools. He has been a Director of Cambridge Assessment, which owns Cambridge International Examinations, been a Director of an Education NGO working in Sub-Saharan Africa, participated in national steering groups and professional associations in England, and undertaken research work on school improvement at Cambridge University, building his understanding of education in its widest sense.
He is Freeman of the City of London. David completed his undergraduate degree in history at Cambridge University, his postgraduate studies in education at Oxford University and continued his studies with a MBA in International Education Leadership. He also has a diploma in Theology. He is a keen sportsman and amateur ornithologist.
Professor Barnaby Lenon CBE
Dean of Education, University of Buckingham
Barnaby Lenon taught at Eton for 12 years, was the deputy head of Highgate School, head of Trinity School Croydon and head of Harrow School for 12 years. He then helped establish the London Academy of Excellence in East London, one of the most successful state sixth form Academies, where he is chairman of governors. He is chairman of the Independent Schools Council, which supports 1400 private schools in the UK, and has been a governor of 25 state and independent schools. He was a member of the board of Ofqual during the implementation of the reforms to GCSEs and A-levels and is now on their Standards Advisory Committee. He is Dean of Education at the University of Buckingham.
He has written six books including, recently, Much Promise about high-achieving state schools and Other People’s Children about the least academic 50% in England. He researches the characteristics of effective teachers in the UK and USA.
Professor John McIntosh, CBE
Chairman of Council
John McIntosh is a former Headmaster of The London Oratory School (1977–2007). He has a particular interest in education policy and has been actively involved in policy development and several think tanks concerned with education policy throughout his career. He was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the College of Preceptors 1998 and appointed a Fellow of the College of Teaching in 2016. He has been an external adviser to the Department for Education on Free Schools since 2011, He is presently the honorary president of a multi academy trust and a trustee of another. John served as a member of the Health Education Council from 1985 to 1988 and the National Curriculum Council from 1990 to 1993. He was a member of the Teachers Standards Review, the Teaching Agency advisory group, and the National College for School Leadership advisory board, and the National Curriculum Review in 2011-13.
From 2009–2011 he was education adviser to the Leader of Hammersmith & Fulham Council. In 2010 he was responsible for establishing a bilingual (English & French) primary school in West London, which was a partnership between the local education authority, the French government and the governing body of a maintained primary school. He has been involved in the School of Education at the University of Buckingham from the early days of its foundation in 2002. He became a member of the University’s Academic Advisory Council in 2013, joined the Council of the University in 2014, and has been ViceChair of Council since 2015. He is also Chairman of the Risk, Audit and Compliance Committee and of the Honorary Awards Committee. In 2018 he was elected a Professor of Professional Practice in Education by the University.
John was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1996 and promoted to Commander of the Order in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to education. He was a Knight of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St George 2011. In 2016, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) by the University of Westminster for his contribution to education.
School Council
- Prof John McIntosh CBE (Chairman)
- Prof Barnaby Lenon CBE
- Karl Yin