Authors
Biology
William Ward
William Ward has spent 41 years teaching, spending 23 of those teaching IB Diploma Biology. He has led over 60 IB Biology workshops and has consulted with many schools in establishing IB curriculum or in improving IB instruction at existing IB schools.
Alan Damon
Alan Damon teaches Biology and Theory of Knowledge (ToK) in Paris at the Ecole Active Bilingue Jeannine Manuel. He is committed to integrating technology into the classroom and promoting critical thinking skills.
Randy McGonegal
Randy McGonegal has been teaching for 40 years, the last 28 as an IB Biology instructor. He has consulted on implementing and improving many IB programs in North America and has led over 90 IB workshops.
Chemistry
Catrin Brown
Catrin Brown teaches IB chemistry and biology at Lester Pearson United World College of the Pacific in Canada. Having taught international curricula since 1992, she has been involved in almost all aspects of IB curriculum and assessment, including International A'level (IA) moderation, leading teacher workshops and co-writing the current chemistry curriculum.
Mike Ford
Mike Ford is the High School Curriculum Coordinator at the International School of Lyon. He has an MA in Chemistry from Oxford University and 19 years’ experience teaching IB Chemistry Physics and ToK. He has been a Deputy Chief Examiner in Chemistry and led workshops throughout the world.
Oliver Canning
Oliver Canning teaches IB Chemistry and is the TOK Coordinator at TASIS England. In addition to nine years working in the IB Diploma programme, he has taught chemistry courses in English, American, and Spanish education systems. He is also a Course Leader for the educational charity Amala, which works with displaced youth. He was a contributing author to the upcoming chemistry curriculum as well as developing the accompanying Teacher Support Materials.
Andreas Economou
Andreas Economou teaches IB Chemistry and Pre-IB Physics and Chemistry at the American International School in Cyprus. He received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Manchester and after spending some time as a research and development chemist, he turned to his passion of teaching. He has been an examiner in IB Chemistry for the past 7 years.
Garth Irwin
Garth has taught IB Chemistry at Pearson College UWC, Canada since 2002. He has a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry and has co-authored several successful Pearson IB chemistry resources.
Physics
Chris Hamper
Since 1995 Chris Hamper has been teaching physics, climbing rocks and casting flies at the United World College (UWC) Red Cross Nordic situated on the west coast on Norway. Before that he was the head of physics at UWC Atlantic college where he studied the motion of waves while sitting on his surfboard.
Emma Mitchell
Emma Mitchell is the Academic Programme Leader at United World College (UWC) Red Cross Nordic, Norway, where she teaches Physics. She is an advocate of the IB’s approaches to teaching and learning and is also an IB Physics Consultant for InThinking. Emma recently completed doctoral research in Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment. She enjoys hill walking and playing guitar.
Environmental Systems and Societies
Andrew Davis
Andrew Davis is an IB examiner and workshop leader for ESS, and was a curriculum developer for the new 2024 syllabus. He has taught the subject for 15 years. Andrew worked in South East Asia for 10 years as part of the Royal Society’s Rainforest Research Programme, examining the effects of rainforest disturbance on insect communities. He has published many articles on his insect work and maintains an active interest in tropical ecology and conservation.
Garrett Nagle
Garrett Nagle has been an IB Examiner since 2004 and has been involved in over 50 textbooks and numerous articles. He has also been an IB Workshop Leader. He is Chairman of the Oxford Geographical Association.