Xu Bo Staff

China Office

Jiong (Jessie) Duanmu   
Founder /Director, Shanghai Xu Bo Art and Culture Exchange
Founder, Xu Bo (Singapore) Art and Culture Exchange
Jiong (Jessie) Duanmu has been working with international students, volunteers and interns for five years. She obtained her Master's degree in Education in the UK and has taught English and Mandarin in primary and secondary schools for 9 years. She is the founder of Shanghai Xu Bo Art and Culture Exchange and Xu Bo (Singapore) Art and Culture Exchange. She loves working with international students, volunteers and interns from all over the world. Every time when volunteers and interns came to her and said “Thank you”, “You are life changer”, “China is my home!”, when the teachers or students said “having lessons with volunteers, we are more interested in English learning” “our teachers are so touched by your volunteers”, all these made Jessie working even harder. She felt she made the difference. The world is getting smaller and closer because of international, high school students programs, volunteer and intern programs.
In her holiday time, she has a great love for travel and has been to France, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Canada, USA, South Africa, Norway, Ireland, UK, Morocco, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Brussels and Australia. In free time, she loves cooking, dancing, Chinese instrument, golf, table tennis and swimming.

Nick Yin    

Nick comes from Shanghai and is Xu Bo's financial officer. He was formerly a web site programmer so he also helps our webmaster John to update Xu Bo's web site. His favorite hobby is enjoying music and he is a webmaster for a music web site. He likes to make friends from all over the world. Although his English is not as good as he would like, he thinks that making friends is best done by hearts, not by words only.

Jing (Peggy) Zeng
Program Coordinator, Shanghai Xu Bo Art and Culture Exchange
Jing (Peggy) Zeng graduated from Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade and majored in Event Management. She joined Shanghai Xu Bo in July, 2009 and is now Program Coordinator. In the summer of 2009, her first job assignment was to take charge of the Shanghai Xu Bo University Camp. There, she coordinated the program for both Chinese university students and overseas volunteers. Her efforts were instrumental in making the camp successful. Both students and volunteers benefited from her efforts not only by improving their language knowledge but also in helping them understand and respect cultural differences. She greatly enjoyed working with the international volunteers and found the work challenging and gratifying. She enjoyed the opportunity to meet and become friends with people from all over the world.
She is currently learning belly dancing and Reggae in her spare time. She also likes traveling, playing badminton and tennis, watching movies and shopping.

John Millspaugh    John is the webmaster for the Shanghai Xu Bo Art and Culture Exchange website. He is a retired software engineer from the USA who spent three months as a volunteer teacher on ChangXing Island, just north of Shanghai. He had such an incredible experience there that he is happy to stay involved with Xu Bo by providing assistance with the website. John lives in New Jersey with his wife Grace and three cats and has one son, Michael. He is currently teaching English as a Second Language to people who have emigrated to the United States. He hopes to return to China and teach again some time in the future.

Singapore office

Pearly Yap     Pearly has been working in higher education & training industry for 7 years. In the last 3 years, she worked in one of the sought after private higher education institutions at Malaysia. Her main job functions include liaising with international students, international agents & assessing international students’ qualification prior enrolling to University. Additional, after completing her Master in Education Management in UK, she was attached with a multinational company in Southampton, United Kingdom.
Pearly has been studying & working in US, UK and Australia last 9 years. She completed her tertiary education from US, UK & Australia. Therefore, she has sound knowledge in US, UK and Australia higher education system.
Pearly has a bright personality, friendly and cheerful. She enjoys eating and tasting food from different countries. However, she admits that she is not a good cook. She loves traveling, reading & sharing knowledge and experience with people of common viewpoint.