Leadership Team
Marie-Hélène Ulcoq
Head of School
Marie Hélène is focused on delivering academic excellence and balance, is committed towards inclusion and diversity, encourages restorative classroom practices, and is dedicated towards developing intercultural understanding, international mindedness, and ethics.
She has local and international experience in two main professional sectors, namely, the insurance, loss adjusting and risk management sector, and the education sector, which has been her passion from a very young age.
She is a well-known badminton player, who has represented Mauritius at many international competitions, and she embraces and fosters sporting values such as fairness, teambuilding, discipline, inclusion, and perseverance.
Marie Hélène is what she calls a lifelong learner, and she is passionate about educational research and leadership. She was awarded a ‘Masters of Professional Studies in Education’ with First Class Honours from the University of Auckland, New Zealand; and applies theories in her practice.
Her mission is to ensure that learners are given the opportunities, tools, and encouragement to reach their full potential, and to protect, lead, guide and serve the interests and needs of the whole WISS community.
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Sylvain Hennequin
Deputy Head of School
The Deputy Head of School has 21 years experience in education, working with children of all ages as a teacher and sports coach at national level. He joined WISS in 2018 to take up an administrative position. He heads the sports and the well-being departments. He is passionate about sports and practices trail running and mountain biking amongst others.
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Elise Koenig
Head of Wellbeing
Elise has obtained a Master’s Degree in Child and Adolescent Developmental Psychology at the University Paris 8 through distance learning in September 2017. Since then, she has worked with patients aged between four and 20 years suffering from psycho-affective disorders, family related difficulties as well as learning disabilities.
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Flavio Jacquin
Head of Academics
Flavio has 25 years of experience as an educator with international experience. In his role as the Head of Academics of WISS, Flavio provides strategic leadership for the holistic development of our students; further strengthens connections between the three programmes, CLS, IGCSE and IBDP and between all the departments.
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Julia Gourel de Saint Pern
School Manager
The School Manager, Julia Gourel de Saint Pern is also the co-founder of the school. She is dedicated and passionate about Education. She strives to create engaging learning environments respectful of physical limitations, cultural diversity, special education needs and gender equity to optimise student success.
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