Dan is a British secondary school teacher and has substantial experience teaching English and humanities subjects in England where he has served as Head of English and Humanities Faculty and Head of Gifted and Talented Education. 

Before joining his current school in Jakarta, he was living and teaching in the Sultanate of Brunei where he taught for five years. Dan has experience of managing and teaching a range of English and humanities subjects at Key Stages 3 and 4 in England, developing curriculum strategies and materials. 

He has served as a member of the English Language Curriculum Development Committee at the Ministry of Education in Brunei for the lower secondary level. Indeed, he was part of a working group which established the country’s first common assessment tasks in English for lower secondary education in Brunei. Dan has also served the Bruneian Ministry of Education as Chief Oral Examiner for IGCSE English Second Language and as an oral examiner for GCG ‘O’ Level English.

Outside of school, Dan enjoys going to the gym, swimming, playing tennis, reading, writing, cooking and world history. Dan is also a writer...