Leadership

Administrative
Leadership Team

Jeff Buscher

Principal

Nathan Bryant

Assistant Principal

Mark Vickers

Dean of Students

Elaine Chen

Office Manager

Nunu Sun

Director of General Affairs

David Toyne

Director of Information Services

Alicia Chuang

Director of Student Affairs

Heads of Department

David Vaughan

Literature

William Ma

Mathematics

Mina Lai

World Languages

Afra Su

Music, Art, Drama,

and Dance

Mark Vickers

Social Studies

David Toyne

Computer Science

Garima Pandey

Science

Jeff Buscher

Principal

B.A., M.A.: University of Iowa

Passionate about education, Jeff is originally from the state of Iowa in the USA. He became a teacher after training as an Army officer and earning his BA in History. After a brief stint in public school, Jeff earned his MA in Secondary Social Studies Education, teaching at the University of Iowa. In 1996, Jeff was fortunate enough to join an international school in Bogota, Colombia, and he has been an international educator ever since. He has worked in both the classroom and leadership roles in top schools in Qatar, Denmark, the Philippines, and Singapore, then back to the Philippines before moving to Taiwan in 2012. Jeff served as a teacher and as senior leadership at another prominent international school in Hsinchu/Zhubei for 10 years, before consulting in Tainan and then joining HCAS.

A classroom teacher for more than 30 years, Jeff has taught various regular, AP, IB, and IGCSE History, Geography, and Political Science courses, and even Musical Production! He had the wonderful opportunity to coach football (soccer) at 4 different schools, including 3 champion teams (2 girls, 1 boys), and he had the privilege of serving on the THIMUN Advisory Board for 13 of his 20 years as an MUN director. His leadership roles have ranged from Department Head to IBDP Coordinator and Academic Dean to Director of Curriculum and Instruction (functionally Assistant Principal.)

At every step along this journey, Jeff has experienced amazing adventures, but the most important weren’t swimming in the Amazon, or going inside the Great Pyramid, or whitewater rafting on the Zambezi. Second only to being a husband to his wife Jackie and father to his teenage children Rhys and Elena, the greatest adventure has been getting to work with incredible students, colleagues, and parents all over the world, establishing lifelong friendships, and helping shape future generations of leaders while always seeking to grow himself as well.

Jeff believes that people are the most important element of any organization or community, highly values interpersonal relationships, and lives by two quotes that drive him to this day: From the US Army — “Take care of your people and they will take care of you,” and from Civil Rights activist and poet Maya Angelou — “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”