Andy Dailey

Andy Dailey is currently the founding Director of Uptown International School in Egypt. Prior to this position, he founded two campuses of Albanian College, IB Continuum Schools, in Albania, as Executive Director. He is a former IB History teacher, History and CAS workshop leader, CAS Coordinator, Assistant Examiner, and IB and CAS Curriculum Review Committees member. Andy Dailey has served as Series Editor of Access to History for the IB since 2011 and has authored and co-authored a number of titles in the series, including Move to Global War, Causes and Effects of 20th Century Wars, and Peacemaking, Peacekeeping: International Relations 1918-1936. He is a co-author of Individuals and Societies MYP by Concept 4 & 5. A native of Tennessee, Andy graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in European History. After teaching on a Native American reservation, he decided to enter international education and taught for three years in Zagreb, Croatia. He moved on to Egypt where he was introduced to the IB and taught history for 11 years, while completing a Master's Degree in Curriculum and Teaching with Michigan State University. He assisted in the establishment of the IB Diploma program at International Academy Amman in Jordan, before returning to Egypt to help set up yet another IB Diploma program at the New Cairo British International School. In 2014, he was named founding Director of Albanian College Durres, an IB Continuum School, and then promoted to Executive Director in 2015 with the founding of a second campus of Albanian College in Tirana. Andy is a great collector and has a vast collection of kilims and carpets from the western Balkans, primarily from today's Albania. His main residence is on the Nile in the Beni Suef Province of Egypt.