The IELC brings together a team of world-class internationally recognised scholars and experienced school leaders who possess a deep understanding of education issues in Asian and global education contexts.

Professor Allan Walker – Programme Designer, Adviser and Course Instructor
Allan is Adjunct Research Chair Professor of International Educational Leadership and Co-Director of The Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change (APCLC) at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK).
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Dr Adam Poole – Programme Leader and Course Instructor
Adam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at EdUHK. He earned his Ed.D. from the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, and brings over a decade of experience as an international school teacher in China before transitioning into academia.
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Dr Ewan Wright – Associate Programme Leader and Course Instructor
Ewan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong. He is also a Research Fellow at the Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change.
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Dr Chris Müller – Course Instructor
Chris is an independent educational consultant specializing in promoting international-mindedness, building global consciousness, establishing good governance, and matters relating to school accreditation and the International Baccalaureate programs.
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Prof Darren Bryant – Course Instructor
Darren is a Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University. Previously he served in EdUHK as the Head of the Department of Education Policy and Leadership and as Associate Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change (APCLC).
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Dr Jiafang Lu – Course Instructor
Jiafang is an Associate Professor at the Department of Education Policy and Leadership (EPL) and Associate Director of the Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change (APCLC), Education University of Hong Kong.
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Dr Sedat Gümüş – Course Instructor
Sedat is an Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership and a Research Fellow of the Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change at the EdUHK. Before moving to Hong Kong, he was an associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.
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Dr Soobin Choi – Course Instructor
Soobin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership. He earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis from the University of Missouri.
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Dr Terrence Quong – Course Instructor
My motto is “Engage and extend”. As a school principal I have instilled this in my students, as a professor it is the basis of my course development and research, as a consultant it is the message I share about education and school leadership, as a citizen it is my lived experience.
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Contributing Staff:
- Full-time scholars and adjunct and guest lecturers from the Department of Education Policy and Leadership
- Research and Scholar-Practitioner Fellows from the APCLC