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Natalie Lawand is currently a member of the Honours Program Team at The Scots College Preparatory School. Natalie has close to 10 years of primary experience, teaching in mixed ability, cluster and ‘pull out’ gifted classrooms. She has completed post-graduate studies in Gifted Education and has presented at a GERRIC school holiday program for gifted students known as Small Poppies. Natalie is passionate about nurturing the interests and talents of able children by providing a program that is both rigorous and rich in complexity.

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Gaelle Le Brech holds numerous qualifications including a BA (Foreign Language, Literature & Civilisation) and an MA (English Literature) from the University Nantes, France as well as French teaching qualifications through the National French Teaching School (IUFM), France. Gaelle has taught in France and Britain and since moving to Sydney has been employed as a community college teacher/tutor.

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John brings a wealth of business, management, IT, consultancy and training experience to many of the professional development courses on offer at CCE. This experience has included senior corporate and general management roles in American, British and Chinese multinationals, as well as consultancies for several leading UK and Irish management firms. His consulting projects have covered advanced practice studies in leadership, sales & customer service processes, strategic sourcing, human resource models and organisational issues. These projects have been undertaken in North & South America, Europe and China. His international client list includes Procter & Gamble, Red Bull, Johnson & Johnson, SC Johnson, Eli Lilly, Roche, Mitsubishi, Vodafone/ Hutchison Telecoms, Danone, Heineken, BOC/ Linde, Boehringer Ingelheim, British Government and Qantas. John also works for an Australian consulting firm, Newfocus, conducting projects in the government and Not-For-Profit sectors. John has been involved in projects at PwC and Macquarie University.

John is currently undertaking a M. Phil/ PhD and holds a Master of Business Administration (with Distinction), Bachelor of Arts (with Distinction), majors in Psychology and Statistics, sub-majors in Accounting and Economics; Diplomas in Management, Change Management, Risk Management, Project Management; Digital Badge in Advanced Analytics, Graduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching, and Certificate IVs in Competitive Manufacturing (Lean) and Training and Assessment. John has been awarded the highest qualification by The Australian Research Society, namely Qualified Professional Researcher. John is an accredited Sydney Lifeline counsellor, where he also trained counsellors for more than 20 years.

John has lectured in Bachelor of Business at Torrens University, Master of Business Analytics at Kaplan Business School and Master of Community Development offered through Southern Cross University (SCBIT Sydney campus). John has been an Executive Coach at UNSW, where he has also been a guest lecturer in marketing and change management. He has taught 1st year statistics at UTS (Insearch) and Macquarie University (Navitas) and delivered IT training in corporate settings for 30 years.

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Lee Sun-hee is an experienced and professional language teacher. She has a Master’s in Language education from University of Sydney and a teaching qualification from University of NSW. Her master’s thesis on language was published in ‘University of Sydney papers in TESOL’ in 2008.

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Since graduating from the Centre for the Performing Arts in Adelaide Australia in 1998, Tamara has worked extensively in Theatre. Touring various shows interstate and through regional Southern Australia and overseas in the UK. She has played a number of great roles ranging from Ms Medlock in The Secret Garden and Ismene in Antigone and Sybil Fawlty in The Fawlty Towers Dinner Shows. She has acted onstage for the Adelaide Fringe and her TV and film credits include: Look Both Ways, Closed for Winter, The Marriage of Figaro and McLeod’s Daughters as well as taking part in various short films such as Aunty Joans Friendly Grotto, One Man’s Treasure and The Luck of the Irish.

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Stephen Leeder is a professor of public health and community medicine at the University of Sydney and is currently a Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy. He has a long history of involvement in public health research, educational development and policy. In 2003-04, Professor Leeder worked at Columbia University, New York, in the Earth Institute and Mailman School of Public Health. He developed a substantial report, based on research data and scientific interpretation, of the economic consequences of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in developing economies. The report, A Race against Time: the challenge of cardiovascular disease in developing economies, concentrated upon the macroeconomic consequences of CVD, and especially on the fact that one-third of CVD deaths in many developing countries were occurring among people of working age. Professor Leeder has 35 years of experience in epidemiological research, medical education reform and in mentoring young investigators.

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Pablo has taught Latin American history and culture at numerous universities in Australia, the United States and Latin America. He has helped portray the culture of Latin America through the authorship of various film works and has published book chapters and journal articles, as well as editing the book 40 Years are Nothing: History and Memory of the 1973 coups d'état in Uruguay and Chile (2015).

Pablo holds a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from Macquarie University, a doctorate in Latin American Studies from Universidad de Santiago de Chile and a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from Massachusetts College of Art (USA).

Since his move from Chile to Sydney in 2008, Pablo’s focus has been on bringing the culture of Latin America to Australians and finding connections between the two. In 2013, he co-founded and edited the Latin American Research Platform, www.latitudes.info, an independent site and association of researchers, examining the politics, culture and history of Latin America. Latitudes has connected researchers from around the world and has hosted many academic and community events open to all interested in global history.

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Ginette Lenham: B App Soc Sc (counselling) Grad Dip (counselling) M.A.C.A.
Ginette is an experienced counsellor with a Bachelor of Applied Social Science, (Counselling Major), and Grad Dip (Counselling major). Ginette teaches counselling and communication to students studying Health Sciences and has worked as a therapist, co facilitator and facilitator of groups on self-esteem, behavioural change, mood disorders, drug and alcohol rehabilitation and weight loss support groups . She has extensive experience in the health and fitness industry supporting, mentoring and coaching people through their weight management journey.

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David has studied and practiced Chinese Calligraphy for more than 12 years and is a Member of the Australian Oriental Calligraphy Society. He has participated in international calligraphy exhibitions in China and has won many first and second prizes in Chinese Calligraphy competitions organized by the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW (The Royal Easter Show). David also has extensive university teaching experience in both postgraduate and undergraduate levels in finance.

David has a keen interest in Chinese history and its arts. He holds an Honours degree in Commerce and a Masters degree in Business Administration.

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Tamara Levine was born in South Africa and lives in London and Sydney.

She has an MA in Comparative Literature and a PhD in Modern Hebrew Literature from University College London. She has a special interest in the works of David Grossman.

Tamara has lectured in the UK, South Africa and Australia, and has contributed to publications on Modern Hebrew Literature in the UK.