Samah Ghanem

Samah Ghanem is a passionate educational leader and a linguist with more than 16 years of classroom experience. She is currently a Secondary School Principal and a consultant. Prior to her journey in K-12 education, Samah thrived as a linguist and earned her bachelor’s degree in Linguistics and Translation from Ain Shams University in Cairo. She pursued her first master’s degree in teaching foreign languages from Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, then earned her master’s in educational leadership from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.   Over the course of her career she lived, studied, and worked in Egypt, Spain, USA, UAE and Qatar. Samah taught the IB Language A: Language and Literature for many years and has been part of the IBO network of educators as a Workshop Leader, School Visit Team Member, Programme Leader and examiner for more than 10 years.