Lehrerinnen und Lehrer Grundschule
Lehrerinnen und Lehrer Gymnasiums
Pädagoginnen und Pädagogen Kindergarten & Preschool
Lehrerinnen und Lehrer extracurriculare Förderung

Das Team der Berlin Cosmopolitan School, Preschool und des Kindergartens

Founder / School Director

Yvonne Wende
Founder and School Director

2004 gründete Yvonne Wende die erste internationale bilinguale englisch-deutsche Vorschule und Grundschule in Berlin-Mitte. 2007 folgte die Gründung der  Ganztagsgrundschule (Berlin Cosmopolitan Primary School) und 2009 die Eröffnung des Gymnasiums der Berlin Cosmopolitan School.

Heute ist Yvonne Wende geschäftsführende Mehrheitsgesellschafterin der ebs Europäischen Bildungsstiftung gemeinnützigen GmbH, geschäftsführende Direktorin, Geschäftsführerin der hauseigenen Küche, der Berlin Cosmopolitan Cookery und der Berlin Cosmopolitan School Campus gemeinnützigen Gesellschaft mbH. Inmitten der Natur eröffnete Yvonne Wende im September 2022 unter anderem einen außerschulischen Lernort für die Berlin Cosmopolitan School. In den Bildungseinrichtungen werden knapp 1.000 Schüler und Schülerinnen gefördert. Sie hat etwa 180 Mitarbeiter und Mitarbeiterinnen und ist Mutter von drei Kindern. Die ältesten haben das IB Diploma bzw. das bilinguale Abitur an der Berlin Cosmopolitan School erfolgreich abgelegt.


In 2004, Yvonne Wende founded the first international bilingual English-German preschool and primary school in Berlin-Mitte. This was followed in 2007 by the founding of the all-day primary school (Berlin Cosmopolitan Primary School) and in 2009 by the opening of the secondary school of the Berlin Cosmopolitan School.

Today, Yvonne Wende is the managing majority shareholder of the ebs Europäische Bildungsstiftung gemeinnützigen GmbH, executive director, managing director of the in-house kitchen, the Berlin Cosmopolitan Cookery and the Berlin Cosmopolitan School Campus gemeinnützigen Gesellschaft mbH. In the midst of nature, Yvonne Wende opened, among other things, an extracurricular learning space for the Berlin Cosmopolitan School in September 2022. The educational facilities support almost 1,000 students. She has about 180 employees and is the mother of three children. The oldest have successfully completed the IB Diploma or the bilingual Abitur at the Berlin Cosmopolitan School.

Nataliya Karl
Assistant to the Founder / School Director

Administration / Finance / Human Resources

Head

Solveig Harloff
Head of Administration, Finance & HR

Administration

Sybille Böhmisch
School Secretary

Nadin Hohmann
School Secretary

Dominik Courtois
Facility Manager

Manuel Mühlner
Facility Manager

Claudia Richter
Project Development Manager

Cyril Compeyron
Librarian

Finance

Manan Sanghvi
Finance Officer

Melissa Weichert
Finance Officer

Human Resources

Poonam Sanghvi
Head of Human Resources

Ömer Allahverdi
Human Resources Officer

Communications

Esther Marie Merz
Head of Communications,
Public Relations and Marketing

Admissions

Randi Impson
Admissions Director

Yvette Williams
Admissions Secretary

Kindergarten & Preschool

Heads Team

Gade Mete
Head of Kindergarten & Preschool

Michael Habekost
Head of Kindergarten & Preschool

Nicole Praima
Head of Kindergarten & Preschool

English speaking Educators

Aiyana Wain Hirschberg

Alexander Bloom
Year Group Coordinator

Aleksandra Spasovski

Amarilda Kuci

Ashley Rothmann

Cathy Nabadda

Daniel Errey

Duygu Avci Altinkaya

Eva Fumika Hirayama

Ginna Alejandra Valez Carrasco
Trainee

Giovanni Sanchez

Harriet Johnston
Trainee

Hilda Gharahbeigi

Isobel Hague

Jane Francis Nanyanzi
Trainee

Johanna Gruschwitz

Katherine Wade
Librarian

Kathleen Van Bonn

Kaya Copeland
Diversity Sensitve Inclusion & Curriculum Coach

Kenneth Steven Krowns

Laura Cranstoun
Year Group Coordinator

Lauren Shelby Piper
Diversity Sensitive Inclusion & Curriculum Coach

Mahfoud Berbache

Meggie Rodman

Monica Afifi Martin

Monika Dengusiak
STEM Coordinator

Myla Lister

Neo Molemohi-Speck

Nicola Sartore

Parul Rohal
SDG-Coordinator

Phiona Kituyi
Year Group Coordinator

Placidius Chimauche Ukaegbu

Raela Anne Goodfriend

Samantha De Oliveira Carmo Pontes

Siobhán Pryce

Tanya Betancourt
Trainee

Tripti

Zahida Nasirova

German speaking Educators

Adriana Almazan Infante
Trainee

Alexander Hübner
STEM Coordinator

Berfin Cacan

Carolyn Laas

Christina Plummer
Head of Kindergarten & Preschool

Daniela Testamarck

Deborah Rattey

Dora Kiss

Dušica Lukic

Elisa Marzaro

Eloise Ciccarelli Perez

Emily Lewis

Felicia Spevacek
Trainee

Ignacio Veillon

Jela Vrhovac

Joana Macedo Nathansohn

Julien Noack
Year Group Coordinator

Kiki Jungnickel

Laylokhon Mamajonova

Marco Silvio Lo Sardo

Marlén Knoppik Junges
Year Group Coordinator

Marlies Haverkamp

Melissa Gomez

Monja Sidortschuk

Nuran Abi

Sarah Hochstein

Sascha Pröchel
Trainee

Selina Kunze

Vanilla Tsarafidy Raniriantsoa
Trainee

Xuanzi Luo
Trainee

Performing Arts Team

Dorrie Silver
Dance Educator

Marlene Schomberg
Dance assistant

Péter Jánosházi
Music Educator

Tabea Sawatzky
Music Assistant

Administration Team

A’ja Dotson
Secretary of Kindergarten

Katrin Meier
Secretary of Kindergarten

Quynh Pham
Secretary of Kindergarten

Reiner Degner
Facility Manager

Primary School

Heads Team

Meagan DeKort
Head of Primary (2nd – 5th Grades)

Taurin Eimermacher
Head of Primary (1st – 2nd Grades)

Classroom Teacher

Alicia Stolsmark
Classroom Teacher

Marc Baxter
Classroom Teacher

Brian Duke
Classroom Teacher

Will White
Classroom Teacher

Justine DeFrancesco
Classroom Teacher

Kieran Lilwall
Classroom Teacher

Meagan DeKort
Head of Primary (2nd – 5th Grades)

Adam Westfall
Classroom Teacher

Katey Svensson
Classroom Teacher

Kylie Hulver
Classroom Teacher

Stefanie Grüetzmacher
German Teacher

Dr. Micha Huff
German Teacher

Liz Collyer
Art Teacher

Alina Avguston
GLD Teacher

Specialist Teacher

April Graziano
SEN Teacher

Christine Freudenberg
German Teacher

Iskra Eterovic
German Teacher

Katharina Pietzner
German, Ethics, Philosophy & Class Teacher

Trisha Speaker
Spanish Teacher

Bridget Kinneary
Music Teacher

Joey Ryan
Music Teacher

Benjamin Salsbury
Music Teacher, Strings Director, Music Supervisor

Juliane Below
Sports Teacher

Naira Schwemmler
Sports & Dance Teacher

Anita Kreft
Dance Teacher & Head of Dance

Dominic Hislop
Art Teacher

Sven Wehrmeyer
Sports & Ethics Teacher, Basketball Coach, Head of Sports Department

Tom Fanore
Music Teacher

Secondary School

Heads Team

Kathrin Röschel
Principal of Secondary School

Fatima Camara
Vice Principal of Secondary School

Art Department

Eunsun Ko
Art Teacher

Lee Clough
Art Teacher, Head of Art

Economics & IT Department

Bernadet-Maria Gollhofer
German, GLD, Ethics & Economics Teacher

Iordanis Foutsitzoglu
Economics Teacher

Andrew Igras
IT/ICT & LSS Teacher

Languages Department

Katherine Mustard
English Teacher

Yukitake Miwa
English, History, Social Studies & Class Teacher

Chris Carter
English, Outdoor & Class Teacher

Dede Donelan
English & Spanish Teacher

Marcel Thach
English, History, Philosophy, Politics, Social Studies & Class Teacher

Bernadet-Maria Gollhofer
German, GLD, Ethics & Economics Teacher

Katharina Pietzner
German, Ethics, Philosophy & Class Teacher

Mario Sánchez
Spanish Teacher

Jeanne-Marie Corbel
French Teacher

Dr. Micha Huff
German Teacher

Maths Department

Steve Solano
Physics, Chemistry & Maths Teacher, Class Teacher

Beti Azuz
Math & Class Teacher

Chris Purdham
Math & Class Teacher

Dr. Thomas Oates
Math & Physics Teacher

Tom Wilkinson
Math & Class Teacher, Head of Maths Department

Douglas Weber
Math & Music Teacher

Music Department

Bridget Kinneary
Music Teacher

Jonathan Lindhorst
Music Teacher

Joey Ryan
Music Teacher

Benjamin Salsbury
Music Teacher, Strings Director, Music Supervisor

Douglas Weber
Math & Music Teacher

Science Department

Steve Solano
Physics, Chemistry & Maths Teacher, Class Teacher

Katherine Lawrence
Biology, Chemistry & Class Teacher

Dr. Thomas Oates
Math & Physics Teacher

Dr. Erika Nehnevajova
Biology, Chemistry & Class Teacher,
Head of Science Department

Dr. Maria Šamalikova
Chemistry Teacher

Social Studies Department

Iordanis Foutsitzoglu
Economics Teacher

Yukitake Miwa
English, History, Social Studies & Class Teacher

Marcel Thach
English, History, Philosophy, Politics, Social Studies & Class Teacher

Robin Williams
Social Studies, English & Class Teacher, Head of Social Studies Department

Sports & Dance Department

Anita Kreft
Dance Teacher & Head of Dance

Sven Wehrmeyer
Sports & Ethics Teacher, Basketball Coach, Head of Sports Department

Naira Schwemmler
Sports & Dance Teacher

School Counselor / Psychologist

Dr. Martina Heinrich
Head of Well-Being

Extracurricular Programme

Head

Panagiotis Papadimitriou
Head of Extracurricular

Team

Metti Ararsa
Extracurricular Teacher

Ertuğrul Hamza Önal
Extracurricular Teacher

Trevor Wood
Extracurricular Teacher

Nesrin Basaran
Extracurricular Teacher

Brendan Dougherty
Extracurricular Teacher

Astrid Lefranc
Extracurricular Teacher

Brian James Mitchell
Extracurricular Teacher

Aya Murad
Extracurricular Teacher

Anny Paulin Peters
Extracurricular Teacher

Ruairi Whelan-Turnbull
Extracurricular Teacher