Todd A. Nelson
Sixty-two years young, with an uncommon breadth and depth of experience. This is what I bring to my work in college admission counseling, teaching, and educational administration.
Since 1998, my wife and I have lived in Malaysia, Qatar, Vietnam, and now China. Jeni is an early childhood and literacy specialist who taught at ISKL for 15 years, at Qatar Academy, and at Concordia International School Hanoi.
I currently serve as a director of college admission counseling at a rigorous college prep AP curriculum school in south China, BASIS International School Park Lane Harbour. Jeni has been the chair of the English Language Learner program for the same school but returned this year to her first love, kindergarten.
We have accepted positions at a new BASIS school in Shenzhen for the years 2024 to 2026. I will start the college counseling program, and Jeni will be Vice Head of the Lower School.
My professional background includes classroom teaching of humanities subjects in Hanoi, management of a tutoring center in Doha, and administrative leadership of a school within a Malaysian university. I have also done private tutoring for the Qatari royal family and served as an adjunct faculty member with American Public University System teaching online in their MA in humanities program.
We have two grown daughters who spent most of their school years in Malaysia and graduated from The International School of Kuala Lumpur. One is now a teacher at the American Cooperative School of Tunis, having taught children previously in Saudi Arabia and young adults in Saharawi refugee camps in Algeria. She earned her MA in education at the University of Florida. Our younger daughter earned a PhD in history from Vanderbilt University in 2021 and after completing post-doctoral research positions at SMU and the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, she has recently been appointed Assistant Professor of History at Leiden.
