Biography

Ormond Fannon, Dip. Ad., M.Ed., FRSA
Accreditation Visit Leader for CIS - Council of International Schools
Principal Examiner for IBO - International Baccalaureate Organization
Ex. Business Manager and Executive Director for resource Development at St. Julian's School Portugal

Ormond Fannon is an independent consultant to schools worldwide. His extensive experience in all aspects of school management has taken him to almost every continent as an Accreditation Visit leader for the Council of International Schools. His involvement with the (E)CIS accreditation services dates from 1997 when his own school, St. Julian's School in Portugal, first entered the process and when he first participated in an ECIS Team Visit (to IS Baghdad, Iraq). Since then he has represented CIS regularly, whether chairing Visiting Teams or carrying out 5 Year Visits to schools in Europe, Middle East and Australia. He has also acted as a report reader/advisor for CIS since September 2007 and, since then, has annually participated in CIS AVL (Accreditation Visit Leaders) workshops.

Ormond is also highly experienced in the field of Arts Education (he is Principal Examiner and ex-Deputy Chief Examiner for the IB - International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in Visual Arts and was the IB faculty member responsible for the IB Online Curriculum (1998 - 2010). He has lead workshops for the IB in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, France, USA and UAE. He has also presented in IB, COBISEC, INSEA and ECIS conferences in The Netherlands, England, France, Hungary, Czech Republic, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland and the USA.