Colm Flanagan has worked in education for over 35 years across the United Kingdom, Chile, and Korea. His early career focused on state education in inner-city London, followed by his tenure as Headmaster of St. Wilfrid’s Catholic School in York from 2001 to 2009, where the school received an “Outstanding” OFSTED rating in 2009.

From 2010 to 2014, he served as Headmaster of The Preparatory School in Santiago, Chile, one of the country’s most prestigious institutions. He is now in his thirteenth year as Head of School at Seoul Foreign School (SFS), one of the world’s oldest international schools.

Under his leadership, SFS has strengthened its dual International Baccalaureate and English National Curriculum framework, with a continued focus on quality teaching, student achievement, and the school’s longstanding mission of inspiring excellence and building character since 1912.