Our Board of Directors

ALESSIA CHENG Working with the Board gives me the opportunity to communicate with members, share my views and contribute to the future of the children that attend ISF. I think that being involved in taking part of decisions that will later be transferred into actions fulfills the mission of the organization.

MORGAN FIUMI As an ISF alum, I joined the Board primarily out of a desire to give back to a school that has had a profound influence on my life. I have been pleasantly surprised by the extent of learning involved with being a board member. The experience has heightened my enthusiasm on the evolution of education, the vision of the School, and the positive impact ISF can have on the broader community.

MARCO FAZZINI The world is changing, and so is the education system. ISF is working hard to address this change and provide students with the tools they need to become citizens of tomorrow's world.

DAVID ASPIN I joined the Board with a view to helping support the ISF on its journey through an ever changing educational landscape in the hope I could help and advise the leadership team and assist the Board in its pursuit of running a really good school .

GIOVANNI LIBERATORE I joined the board mainly to help support the School in planning a sustainable and financially sound development. I am an educator and I consider ISF a relevant and unique institution for our city, so I am happy to have the opportunity to facilitate relations with the Florentine environment.

Florence is a global heritage city that has celebrated diversity over the centuries, with different nationalities who have contributed to its social and cultural wealth. I believe our School is a key part of the identity of this phenomenal city and can legitimately have the ambition to become a reference point in the arena of International Schools worldwide. I am here to help our School achieve this ambitious target.

PAOLA PULIDORI

KRISTIN DICK We know that the world is a rapidly changing place, for example technology has had a major impact on society and how our future may be different from today. As part of our new mission, vision and strategic plan, the senior leadership of ISF has made research and evaluation a central part of the school and it has begun to build stronger ties in Florence and beyond. This effort helps to ensure that as things change, what our students are able to learn can change too. They also have created an environment that can tailor education to each student's particular needs or interest better than could have been done in the past. This year, as we and the world have had to deal with COVID, I have been impressed to see how the school has adapted. Our staff and administration have demonstrated a nimbleness that is remarkable and bodes well for the future of ISF. I am grateful for what all the teachers and administrators have done to keep our children's education on track.

IVAN MIJATOVIC My aim as a board member is to contribute to ISF in the areas of Governance, Finance and Strategic Planning.

ERIC GOULDER Many, if not most, of the world's ills are a direct result of poor education. We each must do our part to constantly improve the state of education for the child and society as a whole.

CATHLEEN COMPTON I am so happy to contribute to my adopted city’s cultural life by volunteering as a Board member at ISF. I’ve lived in Florence for 30 years, raised my two kids here, worked and volunteered in numerous environments and have always thought of ISF as an important reference point. It is a great privilege to be part of the school’s history now as it strives to carve out a more pronounced profile on the local horizon and to be more proactive in seeking out the many ways Florence can nurture our children’s educational experience.

JACOPO MONACI NALDINI Being convinced that ISF is a great asset for Florence and the surrounding area, I found that I could be of some help to the School in regard to the governance of the legal affairs and relationships with the local entities. My availability offered to the Board was based on several factors: first of all my twenty-year experience in town and with its international community; secondly, my background of studies in an English University and thirdly, my profound conviction that children are the world’s treasure and that they deserve the highest attention and dedication by older people, to have an always better education. Also, the fact that I have a son who is fourteen, makes me closer to the schools’ world. I feel proud to be part of a team who works hard for the benefit of children.

SILVIA QUIROGA In addition to ISF’s community spirit, tolerance and appreciation of diversity, I also hope we have inspired the students to become lifelong learners with willing passion for learning rather than just study for the sake of examinations. It’s important that they secure their ambitions for university and career but I feel it's also critical that they see these as steps towards improving their own lives and the world they are inheriting. Anyone of my generation with young children will realise just how much the style, width and quality of learning has evolved and how that evolution seems to be accelerating. Sometimes I think ISF is teaching me new things as much as my children !! The one thing we can be sure is that these changes will continue and I enjoy being exposed to that and helping it happen in my small way.