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John Fleck

Director of Information Systems

John, from Belfast in Northern Ireland, graduated from the University of Ulster in 2007 with a BSc In Computer Science. He also holds several professional qualifications from both Microsoft and ITIL. Prior to moving to Prague, John worked in London for a tier 1 investment bank, providing infrastructure support to their Trading Floor environment.

He joined the ECP at the start of 2015 in order to ensure the development and implementation of cost-effective systems and efficient computer operations to meet both current and future decision making requirements. He provides school-wide direction in areas of policy and planning for data processing and related functions. Away from the College, John enjoys spending time with his children, as well as reading and snowboarding.

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Gina Hearn OBE

Director of External Relations & Clerk to the Governors

Gina is the ECP’s main contact with outside organisations such as the British Embassy, British Council and the British Chamber of Commerce. She also works with ECP alumni to develop the English College in Prague Network – ECP’s extended alumni association. As Clerk to the Governors, she organises their meetings and ensures our compliance with Czech o.p.s. legislation.

Before moving to Prague in 2006 with her partner, ECP’s Senior Deputy Head, Tony Emmerson, Gina worked in UK politics in various roles: planning and organising regional tours for the Conservative Shadow Cabinet, Political Adviser to the Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons and, for over ten years, she was Constituency Secretary to John Major, including six years at 10 Downing Street when he was Prime Minister.

Gina’s father was Rudolf Poledník, a butcher from Třinec, who escaped Czechoslovakia in 1939 to fight with the RAF and then settled in Manchester after the war where she was born. She attended Manchester High School for Girls and Liverpool University where she studied Political Theory & Institutions. Away from the ECP, she is a keen fan of English cricket and enjoys cooking, gardening, travelling and progressive rock.

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Lenka Svobodová

Accountant

Lenka has vast experience in accounting and administration, especially accounting and taxes, which have been her main professional focus since 1994. Her interests are various sporting activities, travelling and reading and she enjoys spending time with her family.

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Lubomir Arandjelovic

IT Operations Director

Originally from Niš, in Serbia, Sasha graduated in 1999 and worked first as Technical and Service Director for Develop before moving to the Czech Republic to work as an IT Manager at the Czech Academy of Sciences. He then transferred to the pharmaceutical industry, working first as an IT Manager and later, as EMEA Sales Incentive Manager. After a period in Liberec, where he was an IT Project/Change Manager, he returned to the capital, where he was appointed ICT Network Manager at the English College in Prague in 2016.

Sasha is passionate about IT networking and security, International relations and diplomacy, and ancient history and has spoken at conferences in Prague, Basingstoke, Zurich and Boston, while still finding time to enjoy swimming and playing tennis and squash.

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Jiří Černý

Logistics & Building Coordinator

Jiří graduated from Český Brod Grammar School, then worked in Ireland for 10 years in various positions in the logistics sector. In 2010, he returned to the Czech Republic where he joined Marker CZ as a buyer. Jiří joined the ECP in August 2018 as Logistics & Building Coordinator. In his spare time, he enjoys mainly sport.

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Alena Turneberová

Assistant Librarian

After graduating from high school, Alena spent three years in the UK and two years in the USA. After returning to the Czech Republic, she worked for several foreign companies and Czech-English nurseries. In 2016 she joined the English College in Prague as a Library and Art Assistant. In 2018 she gained a Master’s Degree in Anglophone Studies. In her spare time, she likes to travel and read.

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Irena Duffková

Parent

“Please be aware that in our eyes the ECP teachers are true heroes of our lives in the current Covid time learning situation. We cannot express enough our appreciation of their work. Their efforts directly form our children and they are indispensable to them.”

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Brenton A. Pharis

Parent

ECP was our first choice for our daughter and our son because no other school in Prague offers a world class international education and, simultaneously, a rigorous Czech Maturita program.  This allows our mixed nationality children to have a global horizon (whether here or abroad) while remaining grounded in the Czech language and local issues and culture.  Not only is ECP rigorous, they offer an incredible array of extracurricular activities with a particular eye towards giving back to the communities in which we live.

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HRH The Prince of Wales

His Majesty King Charles III

Founder Patron

“I have watched with great pleasure and a sense of pride as the College has grown and flourished. I was particularly glad to meet many of the students and staff during my last visit to Prague, and see for myself the friendly and stimulating environment at the College. I especially welcome the broader international vision the College encourages in its students and I am particularly glad to hear that several of them are now studying in the U.K.”

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Václav Havel

Václav Havel

Founder Patron

“I appreciate the English College’s insistence on combining high academic standards with personal achievement in areas such as art and music, sport and debating, and strong sense of community involvement. The students emerge self-confident and articulate, fluent in English and at home on the international scene.”