Nina Adlan Disney

CEO, Asia Pacific Schools

Nina is a Malaysian with a transnational educational background (the US, Australia, Switzerland, Korea and the UK). She studied Law at the LSE and is a barrister by training. She started her career in international tax with PWC but for the past 23 years, her professional focus has been on the Malaysian education sector- as a lecturer, administrator, publisher, researcher, consultant and mother of three!

She was previously Law Faculty Dean at a leading private university, before co-founding ‘Education Quarterly’ magazine. Her areas of expertise include educational strategic planning and market intelligence, working as an independent consultant on a range of projects, such as feasibility studies for international schools and university branch campuses in EduCity (Iskandar) and Putrajaya. In 2014, she was engaged as an in-country specialist advising the UK Department of Trade and Investment on educational opportunities in Malaysia. In May 2015, she was appointed CEO of Asia Pacific Schools, part of the ILMU Education Group, comprising the network of institutions owned by government-backed private equity firm, Ekuinas.

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