Mander Portman Woodward, UK. Steve Phillips joins Mander Portman Woodward as Director of International. MPW is a leading UK college group providing bespoke fifth and sixth form education in London, Cambridge, and Birmingham since 1973. Steve has worked in international education for over 25 years and is the current Chair of English UK. He is a Fellow at the Chartered Institute of Marketing and on the international advisory board at IDP Connect, and on the English language advisory group at the British Council. Steve was a Director at Regent’s University London for 15 years and lectured at Moscow State Linguistics University in the 1990s where he also studied Russian Language. “I am very pleased to be joining MPW as this exciting period of growth,” he said. “My own passion for education, excellence, and transformational learning experiences is fully aligned with MPW and I’m thrilled to be part of their mission turning a student’s academic aspirations into reality.”