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In addition to her role as Manager Pedagogy and School Organsiation", Andrea Maes-Prior has been leading SIS Berlin since September 2022. Prior to that, she played a key role in the growth of SIS Regensburg as the school's principal.

Previously she has worked for over six years in various English schools as Vice Principal, driving particularly the areas of child welfare and safeguarding as well as improving standards mainly in schools in deprived areas.

In teacher training, she conducted courses to ensure the quality of teaching, was responsible for gifted and talented programmes and developed a number of concepts for the founding of new schools.

She has also worked as a foreign language teacher in various English schools for 18 years. A research project as part of the English-German Fellowship with the British Council sparked her particular interest in bilingual education.

Prior to that, she worked in the Federal Ministry of Finance in the area of European and international financial relations and in the Minister's Office.

Originally from Barcelona, Maria has lived overseas for 10 years. She has a Bachelor Degree in Physics Sciences, and a Master in Leadership and Management of Educational Institutions. She is coming from FEDAC, where she designed and implemented a new personalised project-based learning baccalaureate. Maria has over 15 years of experience working for the IBO and she forms part of the IBEN Community where she contributes in with different roles. She is passionate about Education in all its dimensions and a demonstrated long-life learner. She believes in learning and knowledge sharing as a powerful tool to grow together as a community.

Maria has an appreciation for cultures, which makes living internationally with her family an exciting experience. Her hobbies include snorkelling, travelling and sailing.

In mid-April 2017, Svenja Dinkloh took over as head of kindergarten at SIS Berlin.

Before that, Svenja Dinkloh worked for five years as an independent PEKiP group leader (Prague Parent-Child Programme) in Berlin and Falkensee and as an integration educator in a Spandau day-care centre.

Svenja Dinkloh studied social education at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and graduated with a diploma in social education. She is also a trained educator and has completed further training as a PEKiP group leader.

The joy of working with children, supporting them in their development and discovering pleasure in playfully exploring the world has accompanied her throughout her activities. Svenja Dinkloh was born and grew up in Berlin-Spandau, where she still lives with her children.