Governors

Daniel Chiu is the chairman and CEO of Harrow International Management Services Limited and the founder of the Harrow International Schools in Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai. He is also a governor of all the aforesaid Harrow International Schools. Daniel is currently the chairman of Fortune Oil Limited (previously known as Fortune Oil PLC), of which he has been a director since August 1993 and was the chief executive prior to becoming the vice chairman in October 1994.  He is also the chairman of Federal Asia Company Limited, a private trading company with extensive operations in China.  He also holds the following honorary positions:

• Council Member of China Overseas Friendship Association
• Honorary Citizen of Maoming, The Guangdong Province
• Executive Committee Member of All-China Federation of Industry & Commerce

Mr Eric Wing Cheong Leung is the managing director of Asia International School Limited (AISL) and responsible for its general business operations. AISL owns and operates a series of Harrow International and Harrow-related schools and kindergartens in Asia. He is currently a governor of Harrow International School Bangkok, Harrow International School Beijing, Harrow International School Hong Kong, and Harrow International School Shanghai, and is their designated governor for child protection and safeguarding. Prior to these positions, he was the chief executive officer and an executive director of Carnival Group International Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 996) between 2014-2016, a company listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Before he joined the Carnival Group, Mr Leung was the deputy managing director, an executive director and the chief financial officer of China Gas Holdings Limited (China Gas), a company listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Stock Code: 384). Mr Leung joined China Gas in early 2005 after a 13-year career in investment banking. Investment banks he had served include Lehman Brothers, Jardine Fleming, Barclays Capital and Prudential Securities. His last position before he joined China Gas was managing director and head of corporate finance of UFJ Securities. Mr Leung is a lawyer by training and is qualified to practise law in Hong Kong, England, Wales and Australia. Law firms he had served before include Linklaters and Baker & McKenzie. Mr Leung holds bachelor degrees from the University of Hong Kong and University of London and a master's degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Robert has spent most of his working life within education. After teaching in Hampshire, Wiltshire, and London he spent 14 years as headmaster of Hendon School in North London. During this time he became closely involved in the funding arrangements and financial management of schools as a board member of the UK Funding Agency for Schools. In 2001 he moved to Malaysia, initially as Head of Secondary at Garden International School, and later as CEO of the Tenby Schools Group and, since retirement, has continued to live in Malaysia. He has been a governor of Harrow International School Bangkok since 2007 and is currently acting chair of the governing body.

Mr Hart is a partner in London Bridge Capital Partners LLP, a London-based independent corporate finance firm that works in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, fundraising and corporate advice. Adam holds a law degree and is a chartered accountant. He has held senior positions in various UK financial services firms, is past chairman of the London Stock Exchange’s AIM Advisory Group and is a director of a number of companies. Mr Hart is a governor of Harrow School UK and is a director of Harrow International Schools Limited, the company that manages the relationship between Harrow School UK and the Harrow International Schools in Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, where he is also a governor.

Ms Price spent 26 years at Benenden School in the UK, most recently as deputy head, and was one of the founding trustees of the Benenden School Hong Kong Trust.  After leaving Benenden in December 2015, she became an educational management consultant advising schools on areas such as governance and compliance, development and external relations. She is also a director of Gresham Books, a specialist publisher for schools, and writes and speaks regularly on the development of critical thinking skills. As the representative of the Harrow governors, she is a governor of the Harrow International Schools in Bangkok, Beijing, and Shanghai as well as in Hong Kong. Debra holds a first class bachelor’s degree in History.

Mr Wichien Harnpraween received a law degree (LL.B) from Thammasat University, Bangkok in 1986. He became a Barrister-at-law with the Thai Barrister Council in 1987 and received a Master of Law (LL.M) at the University of Cambridge in the UK in 1990. He is currently a senior partner at Wissen & Co Limited in Bangkok. He is also on the legal committee of the Stock Exchange of Thailand. Mr Harnpraween was expert advisor to members of Parliament of Thailand, 2014. He was also a researcher at the Max Plank Institute in Munich, Germany in 1992 as well as a member of the Trade Competition Committee, Thai Chamber of Commerce in 2013 and Employment Committee and Joint Foreign Chamber of Commerce in 2012.                 

Kittipol Pramoj Na Ayudhya is director of Sammakorn Public Company Limited, a construction company specialising in houses and community malls established in 1970. Kittipol gained a Mechanical Engineering degree in the UK and an MBA from Sasin, Chulalongkorn University and has been in the Thai property business for over 17 years. At the age of 37, he became the youngest president of the Thai Real Estate Association, an association with members from Thailand’s biggest real estate companies.

Kittipol is a governor at Harrow International School Bangkok where his daughter studies and his son previously studied and he is vice chairman and a part-time lecturer at RE-CU, a real estate development program run by the Real Estate Executive Association.

Kittipol was Thailand’s Touring Car Champion in 2016 and has gained himself a reputation as one of the top racing drivers in Thailand. He is also a keen scuba diver, tennis player and marathon runner.