Scholars, Builders, Educators

Honorary Principal of Meridian Future Academy and Principal of Vermont International Academy — a private school authorized by the state of Vermont to issue international high-school diplomas outside the U.S.

• Vice President, Associate Provost & Professor of International Relations, Champlain College
• Visiting Professor, Edward Zigler Center, Yale University
• 1979 Harry S. Truman Scholar for Vermont
• Lord's Medal, awarded by NATO Secretary General Lord Carrington (1987)

Founder of Meridian Future Academy and a Cognia Lead Evaluator, with over 15 years of experience in international education and school accreditation.

Founder of Vermont International Academy (VIA), a Cognia-accredited U.S. high-school system; he has led the development of multiple American and integrated curriculum programs.

Currently leading the development of the Learning Intelligence OS (LIOS), an AI-native system designed for scalable, personalized learning.

• Cognia Lead Evaluator
• Founder, VIA & MFA

A prominent U.S. education expert: Distinguished White House Teacher, NABT Teacher of the Year, AAUW Teacher of the Year, Klingenstein Fellow at Columbia University, Apple Fellow, and NEA Dorros Peace Cup winner.

His Da Vinci curriculum has been featured in Teacher Magazine, Business Week and CBS News; he has designed and founded an American middle school that challenged the assumptions of traditional high schools.

• Expert on U.S. Common Core State Standards
• Author, "Innovative Approaches to the U.S. Common Core State Standards"

Advisor to the MFA Academic Committee; previously Department Chair of the Special Master's Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a freshman advisor at Harvard University.

Author and editor of numerous acclaimed publications, including the internationally renowned Greenwood Dictionary of Education; his work focuses on international curricula in China, study-abroad programs, teacher training, and library and information science.

• Director of the Harvard Education Library
• ACRL Distinguished Education & Behavioral Sciences Librarian
• Doctor of Education, Boston University

Senior advisor and partner of MFA; Doctorate in Education from UC Berkeley, with an outstanding reputation in U.S. and international education.

A legend in American basic education and EdTech — founder of The Learning Company, Silicon Valley's first publicly traded educational software company — and founder of Nueva School and Synapse School.

• Pioneer in educational assessment & teacher development
• Published in Fortune, Business Week, Forbes
• Guest speaker at Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley

Researcher at the Institute of Global Innovation and Development, East China Normal University; founder of the International AI Education BitLab; IEEE member; former visiting professor at the Microelectronics Institute of Fudan University.

Over 20 years in wireless-communication chip design and international innovation; Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering (Germany, 1998) under Professor Dieter Seitzer, the father of the MP3. Founded BitLab in Silicon Valley in 2007 to advance innovative education in the AI era.

• Founder, International AI Education BitLab
• Researcher, Institute of Global Innovation and Development, ECNU
• High-Level Entrepreneurial & Innovative Talent of Jiangsu Province

A Western educator with 30 years of experience teaching English, Social Studies and Finance; served as Academic Director of international programs in Guangzhou, Wuhan and Shanghai for 11 years.

Joined Meridian Future Academy in 2025 as Head of School, leading academic and administrative operations and ensuring performance to Cognia's accreditation standards.

• 30 years of teaching experience
• 11 years as Academic Director of international programs
• Custodian of Cognia accreditation standards