Chad Fairey

Chad has twenty years of teaching and leadership experience in public, independent and international schools. As of August 2015, he is serving as the Middle School Principal at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, New York,

Over his career he has served as a history teacher, technology coordinator, IT Director, Deputy Head and Head of School in in schools in Florida, Washington, D.C., Paris and southern Spain.

Actively involved in the international school community, he serves as chair of the Professional Learning & Action Research Committee for the European Council of International Schools (ECIS), spent five years as the chair of the ECIS IT Committee, and is on the teaching faculty of the Principals’ Training Center for International School Leadership.

He is the founding chair of SIGIntS, the International Schools Special Interest Group of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and has served as a member of the Curriculum Committee and International Committee of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), as well as an educational fellow for the National Digital Library and American Memory Project at the US LIbrary of Congress.

He is a Trustee of the Kindred Project, an NGO registered in Gibraltar that uses service learning, active capacity-building, microfinance and coordination of charity to areas in Morocco, Uganda, India and elsewhere.

Chad is also the founding Director of the Mediterranean Center for Innovation in Education (MedCIE), which is a think tank promoting innovative professional learning in international schools across the Mediterranean region.

A passionate advocate of food education for children, Chad serves as a Food Revolution Ambassador for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, and is the coordinator of Food Revolution Costa del Sol.