About Mary
Mary Langford is a US/UK dual national who first moved abroad at the age of two. She attended eight schools on three continents, studying in French, English and Spanish. She attended the College of William and Mary (Virginia, USA) and the University of Texas graduating with a BA in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, and later an MA in international education at the University of Bath. She has recently started her doctorate in education at Bath. She has been a school head, principal, teacher and admissions and communications director at boarding and day schools in England, Switzerland, Greece, France and Spain offering IB, US, English, Spanish and Saudi Arabian curricula. For four years she was deputy executive director of the European Council of International Schools (ECIS) where her responsibilities included managing 32 professional committees and ECIS certificate programmes for governors and trustees, senior leaders, and teachers. She has served on 16 international school accreditations teams under the auspices of the Council of International Schools, the International Baccalaureate Organisation, and two US accrediting agencies, predominantly the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, and has visited over 90 international schools in the Far East, Middle East, Southeast Asia, North Africa, Europe, and North, Central and South America. She manages a language consultancy of over 40 supporting over 100 students who are studying their mother tongue languages in over 30 International Baccalaureate Schools worldwide. She is also a Visiting Lecturer on International Education at a Danish University.
Mary has written, spoken and led workshops and training programmes on international schools, international education, and the impact of international mobility on families and children, and has served as a consultant for The Good Schools Guide International since 2007.