The American School of Madrid, founded in 1961, is a private, non-profit, American college-preparatory educational organization offering the traditional U.S. high school diploma, the International Baccalaureate, and Spanish Ministry of Education requirements for university. The School has as its primary responsibility the recognition and development of the intellectual ability of its students. The School also recognizes its responsibility to attend to the emotional, moral, physical, and social needs of its students. The principal objective of ASM is to provide an elementary and secondary education program in Madrid consistent with that of the best American international schools in the United States and abroad. It makes possible the acquisition of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behavior that will prepare its students to be critical and concerned members of a changing society, aware of their responsibilities to themselves, to others, and to future generations.

GOVERNANCE

The American School of Madrid is governed by a Board of Trustees whose primary responsibility is to keep ASM’s founding mission current and viable. The Board is a policy-making group, legally empowered to act on behalf of the school. The Board charts a course of action for the School through the development and adoption of Board Policies and decisions.

The association’s by-laws require that the Board is self-perpetuating and that members represent ASM, not a particular constituency. The Board represents a large diversity in talents, including business, financial, professional, and other skills.

2022-23 BOARD OF TRUSTEE MEMBERS

Honorary President: The Honorable Ambassador of the United States of America to Spain and Andorra

Chairman - Michael Willisch

Vice-Chairman - Luis Seijo

Treasurer - José Miguel Knoell

Secretary - Faraday De La Camara

Trustees:

Adeyemi Adesokan

Chresten Christensen

Laure Headrick

Norman Kurtis

Matt Mittino

Steve Schaver

Nicole Warin