Leadership Team2

Mr Muntzer is a highly experienced International Baccalaureate (IB) educator, joining us from an international school in Malaysia where he was Deputy Principal focusing on the Diploma Years. He was already with Hanova for two years, starting in January 2014, as Deputy Principal and IB Diploma Coordinator for Secondary School. He has held former posts including DP Coordinator in Dulwich College Shanghai, founding Director of Studies and IB Coordinator at Repton School Dubai. Previous to this he has been Head of English and Head of Languages at schools in Thailand, Ethiopia, Zambia, India and Vietnam. He holds a Bachelor Degree in English from University of Warwick (UK). He has two children both educated in IB World School international schools.

Ms. Amy Hou joined Hanova as our library coordinator assistant in 2014. She graduated from Australian National University, majoring in Master of Business and finished her Bachelor’s degree in Anhui University, majoring in Library Science. Ms. Hou passed the PHD Entrance Examination in Library Science of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences on May 2014. However, she still preferred to join us in developing our library programme to gain more practical experience to enrich her vision in library. She gained IB DP librarian certificate on Dec. 17, 2014 and gained her IB PYP librarian certificate on Mar. 04, 2015. She had also been trained by the Head of Librarian from International School of Beijing for a week. She also attended an IB MYP workshop in U.S and an IB Conferance in Canada to complete her professional development.

Mrs Rice is from the USA and lives in Xi’an with her husband and five children. She gained her BSc in Elementary Education from Northland International University, WI (USA). She has taught children from 2 to 18 years old for more than 15 years in various community programmes, focusing on the full primary programme for six of those years as a trained PYP teacher. She was originally one of Hanova's founding teachers.

Mr Zhou Zhuhua (Joe Zhou) joined the school office management team as Head of Administration in February 2014. Joe graduated in 2012 from the University of New Brunswick (Canada), majoring in Bachelor of Applied Management. Since graduation he has worked as an Executive Assistant in Xi’an Xinglong Trade Corporation for 2 years.