Global Team Members
first job, he took a gap year around his home country of India, in Greece (Athens, Delphi, Arcadia, Hydra), Israel, Jordan and Thailand. Crossing the Allenby Bridge into Jordan during that year remains an important moment for him. Education: Yale University, BA Languages: Hindi, English, Bengali Birthplace: Ipswich, UK Lived in: India, United States, United Kingdom, Denmark Special Book: In Search of Lost Time , Marcel Proust
China to take on the role of Head of Enrichment at Beijing BISS International School and was soon a part of their Senior Leadership Team. She’s a champion of bespoke learning, finding unique ways to enhance a student’s educational journey. At BISS, she developed new Extracurricular Activities, Events, Festivals, and student leadership related projects in mentorship and entrepreneurship. After her global educational experience, she’s passionate about creating responsible, resilient, and reflective global citizens. Education: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, MS; Goldsmiths, University of London, BS Languages: Mandarin, English Birthplace: Harbin, Heilongjiang, China Lived in: United Kingdom, China Special Book: To the Actor , Michael Chekhov
of crime—not work in its aftermath. Isabella then went to get a Master’s in Forensic Psychology at Newcastle University and then moved to London where she pursued
middle school.
ISABELLA ROGGE PROGRAM MANAGER BASED : MEXICO CITY
DANIEL DE LA TORRE PROGRAM MANAGER BASED : MEXICO CITY
XIAN ZHU PROGRAM MANAGER BASED : BEIJING
FARHAD ANKLESARIA DEAN, GLOBAL ENROLMENT / OUTREACH BASED : LONDON Reading the Iliad and the Odyssey in the original Homeric Greek and hosting one of the largest and most successful parties Yale has ever seen (Electro) reveal the range of Farhad’s personality. He’s a natural-born advisor to students. Following Yale, he worked at ReD Associates in New York and Copenhagen, but he soon moved back to India to form a highly successful, full-service college consultancy, guiding 100s of students over a decade. Studying to one day become a psychoanalyst, his Saturdays in London are spent at an institute understanding Freud and Lacan. He enjoys writing metrical poetry and is the author of a beautiful book on grammar—he also co-wrote and edited the book you are reading right now. We’re told he can identify almost any tree in Delhi where he also became a national level swimmer. Quitting his
Education has been central to Daniel’s and his family’s endeavors. Both his parents taught in classrooms and held senior academic positions. Daniel is committed to bringing diverse people together and engendering dialogue, essential qualities for his work in the programming team at Baret. Education: Columbia University, MPA; Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, BA Languages: Spanish, English, French Birthplace: Morelia, México Lived in: Mexico, Canada, United States Special Book: News from the Empire , Fernando del Paso
Xian is from Harbin, famously known as the “Ice City”, home to the world’s biggest ice sculptures. And, true to her roots, Xian has sculpted an incredible and inspiring career for herself. She attended Harbin’s first bilingual boarding school, a foreign language private school in Beijing and then, at age 14, left China to pursue her A-level studies in the UK. At school and university, Xian focused her attention on drama – having been inspired by her role as Hermia in A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream. She attended the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London where she produced two commercially successful plays ( Lovesong by Abi Morgan and Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen) and took them on tour to Beijing and Shanghai. However, Xian’s love of drama didn’t continue on stage but she found her own Lovesong in the theatre of education. She returned to
Isabella has volunteered at an animal refuge in Bolivia, helped build a school in Uganda, taught English in Spanish prisons, and worked as an intelligence analyst in London. Though it might be hard to join those dots, for Isabella it’s simple: she’s fascinated by people and inspired by travel. Raised in London by German parents, Isabella took a gap year after school to explore Chile, Uruguay,
A native of Michoacán, Mexico’s Avocadoland , Daniel developed a profound interest in international affairs from an early age. In fact, he organized his very own model UN in middle school to engender better relations among his young classmates. His passion for creating these better relations continued—on a much more international scale—and he went to Mexico City to study International Relations and later to serve in his country’s Foreign Service Corps. After serving for six years, Daniel decided to broaden his horizons and enrolled in Columbia University’s graduate program in International Studies. During his time in New York City, Daniel even had the opportunity to achieve one of his long-desired goals: to work at the United Nations Headquarters. The M had fallen out of MUN; Daniel had a come long way from
a career in intelligence analysis and strategic
campaigning. She worked tirelessly to stay that step ahead, becoming an expert in decoding behaviours and understanding the complexities of people. Now in Mexico, she brings her range of expertise and understanding of how careers and passions emerge to our programming efforts at Baret Scholars. Education: Newcastle University, MSc; Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, BA. Languages: English, Spanish. Birthplace: London, United Kingdom. Lived in: United Kingdom, Spain, Mexico. Special Book: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , Douglas Adams.
farhad.anklesaria @baretscholars.org
Argentina, Bolivia, and Uganda. Her travel and
experiences brought her to Madrid to study psychology, Spanish, and International Studies. However, Isabella wasn’t content with just being a student—she wanted to work with people, and she found a volunteer position at a Spanish prison that changed the course of her career. Teaching in prison showed her that she wanted to be a step ahead
daniel.delatorrevelasco@ baretscholars.org
zhu.xian@baretscholars.org
isabella.rogge @baretscholars.org
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