My CV

CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name:                       Louise Orrock

Previous names:      Louisa Orrock

Address:                    85 Goldsmith Lane

                                    London NW9 9AR

                                    United Kingdom

Email:                         louiseorrock@gmail.com

D.O.B:                        7^th August 1958

Age:                            57

Nationality:                UK/US

WORK EXPERIENCE

June 2015:                Senior Examiner, Edexcel/Pearson Government & Politics A2 Route B Ideologies (contract accepted for summer 2016)

2004-2012:                Associate Examiner, Edexcel Government & Politics A2 Route B Ideologies

2001-2012:                Permanent lecturer (A Level Government and Politics) and Key Skills Coordinator

1992 – 2001:             Visiting teacher (ESOL, Numeracy, GCSE English, Government and Politics)

1991:                          EFL and business English teacher, New York Institute of Business Technology, NYC

1990:                          EFL teacher, Language Link, London W2

1989:                          EFL teacher, CES Language School, NYC

1987-1988:                Temporary secretary, London Scientific Services, County Hall, London SW1

1986:                          EFL teacher, Buenos Aires

1981-83:                    Secretary, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London SW1

1978-79:                    Secretary, Legal Department, EMI, London W1

1977:                          Christmas assistant, B Altmans & Co, NYC

1976/7:                       Canteen assistant, SG Browns, Watford

EDUCATION

1970-1972:                Woking Grammar School for Girls, Woking, Surrey

1972-1976:                Talbot Heath School for Girls, Bournemouth, Dorset

                                    10 O Levels, A Level English (A), French (B), German (B)

1976-1977:                London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), London

1978:                          Pitmans Secretarial College, Wembley, Middlesex

1979-81:                    London School of Economics, London

                                    BSc (Econ): International Relations: 2:1

1983-85:                    Institute of Latin American Studies (University of London), London

                                    MA (Area Studies) Latin America (Pass obtained 1986)

1988:                          GRE examination: Verbal 700; Quantitative 680: Analytical 720

1989:                          International House, London:

Cert Tefla (Pass)

1989:                          Registered for one semister on PhD programme, Sociology

                                    Department, New School for Social Research, NYC

2004-5:                       Institute of Education (University of London), London

                                    First part of PGCE obtained

 2010-12:                   Birkbeck College (University of London), London

                                    Unfinished MA Philosophy

2015:                           Honorary Doctorate in Natural Sciences, Taxila Institute (for 5 years'

                                     online contributions)

                                     

PUBLICATIONS:    ‘Latin American and East Asian NICs: Development Strategies Compared’, Gustav Ranis and Louise Orrock, in Latin America and the World Recession, edited by Esperanza Duran (Cambridge, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985), sub editor

                                    ‘On HIV and Aids’, Louise Orrock, Taxila Institute (online), 2015

INTERESTS:           Politics, history, science and nature, economics, philosophy, travel, photography, comparative literature, art. 

REFERENCES:       On request

March 2016