Board Members

The Association of Central European Schools is governed by a seven-member Board. Each Board Member represents an ACES Member school, and is elected for a three-year term. The Board Members strive to facilitate the strategic and operational development of the association.

Brett Gray

Board Chair

Brett is the Founder and Head of The Ostrava International School (TOIS), as well as a founding member of ACES. Brett has devoted more than 30 years to teaching and learning in the Czech Republic and led his school to become the first IB Continuum School in the country.

Rachel MacKinnon

Board Member

Rachel is currently the Executive Director at the International Learning Group School where she led the school to become the first-ever IB World School in Kosovo and an IB Continuum School offering the PYP, MYP, and DP.

Rachel has experience with all four of the IB programmes. Since 1992, she has been involved in the PYP. At this time it was the International Schools Curriculum Project (ISCP) that was handed over to the IB in 1997 when it became the PYP. Since 2005, she has served as a PYP workshop leader, school visitor/leader, and consultant. She has been trained for the Council of International Schools, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and The National Center for School Curriculum and Textbook Development accreditation teams. Rachel also serves on the Board of an IB school in Cairo.

Jaymes Regualos

Board Member

Jaymes is the Education Director at the English International School of Bratislava.  He has been in education over 30 years at all facets from Primary to University including adult education, focusing on curriculum, development and coaching with schools, organizations and companies.  He has been with EISB for the past decade helping its development as an IB Continuum School.

Kirsty Sharp

Board Member

Kirsty is the Education Director at Danube International School Vienna.  She has been in international  education for over 20 years in Czechia, Spain, Germany, Qatar and now Austria. Originally a Primary school teacher Kirsty has worked across all school phases. Kirsty is BSO inspector and regularly inspects British Schools Overseas.  Kirsty has been with DISV for the past three years and recently led the school through its IB Continuum School evaluation.

Jacek Latkowski

Board Member

Jacek has been now teaching for 34 years at university, college and secondary school levels, including 26 years with the IB programme. He is an IB inspector, examiner and workshop leader and for the past 12 years has worked as Vice Principal at The British School Warsaw.

Ines Schreiner

Board Member

I am honored and delighted to join the ACES Board as a newly elected member. As an Austrian-American and long-time IB educator, I am deeply committed to international education and the values of global citizenship. I look forward to serving and representing IB schools in Austria, and to contributing to ACES’s mission of fostering international mindedness and cross-cultural collaboration. I am especially passionate about nurturing the curiosity of future generations, and I’m excited to support and inspire our diverse community of learners and educators across Central Europe.

Karen Eastwood

Board Member

Karen is the Principal of the British International School Bratislava, which was founded in 1997 and is part of the Nord Anglia Education Group. She has worked in International schools all around the world from the UK, Germany, China, Vietnam and Slovakia, and has been in Bratislava since January 2014.

She has a significant amount to offer the group with regards to Health and Well-being and approaches to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.