AIC Council
AIC Council has been carefully selected to represent the professional expertise required to govern AIC. Each member has extensive and successful experience in their particular fields and their combined expertise provides a well-balanced and knowledgeable foundation for the operation of AIC. AIC Council meets bi-monthly.
Nigel Burton LLB
Council Chair/Solicitor
Nigel Burton graduated from the University of Auckland with a degree of Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in 1972. He was, in the same year, admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.
Nigel was previously a partner in the firm of Wilson Henry (now Hesketh Henry) from 1973-1988. After a short period as an executive director in a large public company, he resumed legal practice and in 1989 founded Burton & Co., a law firm specialising in company and commercial law, including commercial property. He remains a senior partner of that firm.
He has served on various Auckland District Law Society Committees and is a director of various closely held companies. He joins AIC as Chairperson of the Council and is Solicitor to Oshu Corporation NZ Ltd.
Ron Holt PhD, MA, MA (Theol), BEd
Ron was educated at Melbourne, Monash, Macquarie Universities and ACU. He holds postgraduate degrees in Sociolinguistics, German language and Literature, Theology and Education.
He has taught at secondary school and at universities in Europe, the US and Australasia, including the Australian National University. He has been a member of the professoriate and head of department at two Australian universities and most recently was Associate Professor and Head of the School of Languages at Auckland University of Technology (1997-2006).
His research and teaching have concentrated on applied language and communication studies and he has published numerous books and journal articles in that field.
Carolyn Solomon BA, Dip Ed, Dip Tchg, AFNZIM
Executive Principal AIC Schools
Carolyn Solomon is an experienced and highly respected educational leader nationally and internationally. She has been Principal of Tauranga Girls' College, New Zealand, Senior School Principal of United World College of South East Asia, Singapore, where she was responsible for International Baccalaureate Diploma programmes, boarding, and was UWC regional representative, and Head of Prem Tinsulanonda International School, where she established an International Baccalaureate World day and boarding school in Thailand.
Carolyn was a recipient of a Woolf Fisher Fellowship and has presented and led discussion groups globally at United World College and International Baccalaureate conferences, and led the UNESCO-IBO SOUL Intercultural Workshop in Yokohama Japan in 2004.
Carolyn returned to NZ in 2003 to establish AIC and has more recently moved to an executive role as Executive Principal AIC schools, responsible for establishing AIC schools globally.
