Simon Davies
Address: Ecole Centrale de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, FRANCE
E-mail: simon.davies@centralelille.fr
Phone: (00 33) (0)3 20 33 54 72
Mobile: (00 33) (0)6 81 37 03 60
Professional info
English teacher and former Head of Languages at the Ecole Centrale de Lille in Villeneuve d'Ascq, northern France. The Ecole Centrale is a graduate school ("Grande Ecole") in Engineering. Teaching business and general English and preparing students for the TOEIC test. Experience in international relations, project management and coaching.
Work experience
Head of Languages Department
2000 - 2019
Comprising 8 permanent staff and over 20 part-time teachers for a total of 8 languages. Managing a budget for day-to-day running of department and also long-term investments. Setting up and coordinating teaching programmes. Recruiting teachers. Managing teaching rooms, including multimedia language lab.
English teacher (professeur agrégé) at Centrale Lille
1999 - present
One of the top multidisciplinary engineering faculties (Grandes Ecoles), France. Teaching general, professional and technical English to students successful in passing competitive entrance exam to faculty and preparing postgraduate engineering degree. Preparation for TOEIC.
Coordinator for the Ecole Centrale Group for Nordic countries
2009 - present
Representing the French Ecoles Centrales (Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Paris) in collaborating with universities in Scandinavia and Finland.
Education
Languages
English
French
Skills
Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
Team-leading
Project management
Communication
2010 - present
2010 - present
University of Valenciennes, France
1994 - 1995
Maîtrise in English literature. Option: Modernism. Dissertation: English Poetry of the First World War
University of Bristol, UK
1988 - 1992
FIrst-class Joint honours Bachelor's degree in French and Latin.