Leadership Team - ISA Liwan School

A Legacy of Leadership: Throughout his career, Qi Zhu has held pivotal roles that have shaped educational excellence:
Senior researcher at the School Culture Research Centre of Central China Normal University.
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Hubei Private Education Association.
Senior Strategic Adviser to the Hubei-Anhui Chamber of Commerce.
Honoured recipient of the National Confucius Medal for Education, recognising his outstanding contributions to the field.
A Voice in Educational Thought: Qi Zhu’s passion for education extends beyond the classroom into thought leadership and literature. His personal monograph, Poems Written in the Classroom, reflects his distinctive approach to blending creativity and education. His editorial contributions include One Hundred Poems for One Hundred Children and Achieve the Best Self, while his work on Oriental Culture Academy (Volumes 1 and 2) highlights his commitment to cultural enrichment.
Warm, insightful, and driven by purpose, Qi Zhu’s leadership is dedicated to cultivating a thriving, innovative educational community that empowers students and educators to achieve their fullest potential.

Has been teaching for 38 years, of which 25 years focus on IB education. He has worked in IB schools in Guangdong and Jiangsu successively, and served as the Deputy Head and Head of K-12 IB schools for nearly 10 years. He is also one of the first group of IBDP Examiners in China.
A research scholar at the President's Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a research scholar on Presidential Leadership at the University College London School of Education.
In 2018, he won the China's Most Influential International School Principal, and in 2019, he won the Sina Education International Talent Training Demonstration Award.
Under his leadership, students have consistently achieved admission to top universities worldwide, including the UK's G5 universities (Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College London, UCL, and Edinburgh) and Ivy League institutions like Yale, Stanford, Chicago, Columbia, NYU, and Johns Hopkins.

Having graduated from Southampton and subsequently completed his PGCE at University College Chichester (UCC).
David joins ISA bringing with him extensive teaching and management experiences, honed from over 25 years of service at prestigious private schools across the UK and Internationally.