My name is Alan Lorenzini, and I joined Santiago College in July 2024 as the Associate Head of School. I transitioned into my new role as Head of School at the start of 2025, and I am delighted to be part of a community that strives for excellence while bursting with an intense passion to live life joyfully. On behalf of everyone at the school, I warmly invite you to take a moment to look through this website, so that you have a sense of this very special school that manages to merge 145 years of tradition with the spark of innovation.
Though I am British, my mother is Spanish and my father is Italian. I have spent most of my adult life traveling between international schools with my family, while always returning to our home in Galicia, Spain. For me, inclusion and intercultural understanding is only possible when we share common values and take the time to appreciate each other’s unique identities. This journey begins by honouring and celebrating the host country’s language and culture.
Santiago College shares an understanding that at the centre of education are students who come to the school with combinations of unique and shared values, knowledge, skills and experiences of the world and their place within it. The school’s educational programmes grow from an understanding that people work together to construct meaning and make sense of the world.
The school takes a holistic view of education, so that along with intellectual and creative development, our programmes address personal, spiritual, social, emotional and physical well-being. The school’s coherent curriculum supports, challenges and inspires personal excellence by removing barriers to learning and wellbeing, and by encouraging students to become confident and self-directed, lifelong learners.
Today, Santiago College is a multicultural, bilingual and co-educational private school nestled in the foothills of the Andes. Its Guiding Statements continue to sustain the excellence that already exists, while striving for further improvement. The recent development of the Santiago College Profile and the SC Student Charter brings further clarity to the school’s purpose and direction. The merging of the school’s traditional values and the attributes of the IB learner profile are integral to the learning community’s thoughts and future actions. These words describe the kind of people the school is proud to send out into the world.
We warmly welcome everyone to our beautiful school.
Alan Lorenzini
