Henning Fries is the Chief Operating Officer of The Dwight Schools, a global network of leading International Baccalaureate (IB) Schools. Dwight has campuses in New York, London, Seoul, Shanghai, and Dubai, as well as in the cloud through Dwight Global Online School, extending a Dwight world-class education to students everywhere. Mr. Fries, who joined The Dwight Schools in October 2019, is responsible for advancing and harmonizing the group’s quality operations across all international campuses. Dwight, which was founded in 1872 in New York, is a pioneer in global education. It is the first school in the Americas to offer the comprehensive IB curriculum from preschool-grade 12. Dwight was also the first independent school in the U.S. to create an international campus abroad in London in 1972. Today, Dwight Schools span the globe and each one shares the same commitment to “igniting the spark of genius in every child.”

Prior to joining Dwight, Mr. Fries was the CEO of Bloom Education, the specialist education division of Bloom Holding operating world-class schools in the UAE. At Bloom, he played an instrumental role in the development of Dwight School Dubai, which opened in 2018. Bloom and Dwight joined forces to launch Dwight’s first campus in the Middle East, bringing an unsurpassed level of excellence and innovation in international education to both the city and larger UAE region. A results-oriented executive, Mr. Fries has led large multicultural teams in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East in the private education and hospitality industries, which included such major organizations as InterContinental, Mandarin Oriental, Fairmont, and Starwood. In his most recent role, Mr. Fries formed five state-of-the-art schools in the UAE with Dwight, Brighton College, and MindChamps. He earned a Diploma in Hotel Management from the Hotel School SBC in Germany and an MBA from Henley Business School in the UK.