AUT - Meet Our Staff

Karen Rutherford BA, RSA CTEFLA, RSA DTEFLA, MA (Hons) Language Teaching
Deputy Head of School, Senior Lecturer

Karen has been involved in the field of language teaching since 1984 and has worked for International House in Finland, Egypt, England and Portugal.  She is one of the founding staff  members at AUT IH and has worked  here since 1990.  She coordinates UCLES, ESOL, FCE and CAE programmes at AUT IH and has an interest in teacher development. She is an IH visitor.

Sandrine Benzitoun Dip Travel and Tourism
Academic Administration Officer
 
Sandrine is originally from France and has been working in the English teaching industry since 2003. She has lived and worked in both the UK and the USA. She speaks English, French, German and Spanish.

Sunki Min BA Asian Studies - Japanese, Japanese Language & Culture
Administration Manager

  Sunki processes new enrolments and helps current students with any queries. She has worked in Korea and Japan. Sunki is originally from Korea and is fluent in Korean, Japanese and English.

Mayumi Inoue-Matamua Dip Home Economics

Receptionist (on leave)

Mayumi is the key contact person for the students. She helps them in a wide range of administrative capacities. Mayumi is originally from Japan and speaks both Japanese and English.

Delwyn Wilson 
Accommodation Coordinator

Delwyn joined AUT International House in March 2003. Prior to this she worked in AUT Student Services for 10 years.

Bronwyn Hughes BA Psychology, BMus
Accommodation Assistant

Bronwyn has a background in music teaching and administration. She joined AUT International House in February 2008.

AeroPort 2000 Ltd

Airport Meeting Co-ordinator

Students will be met at the airport by an AeroPort 2000 Ltd representative and be taken to their host family.

Robin Guenzel BA, Grad Dip TESOL, MA Applied Linguistics

Lecturer

Originally from the US, Robin has lived in New Zealand since 1998 and started working at AUT International House in 1999. She has taught in Japan as well as her home country and has also lived in Germany, Italy and the UK. She can speak German and has familiarity with Spanish and Italian.

Ngaire Rix BA (German and Spanish), Post Grad Dip TESOL, MA Applied Linguistics

Senior Lecturer

Ngaire started teaching English in 1996 and taught in Australia, Japan, Poland and England before coming to AUT IH in 2002.

Jackie Granados-Johnson Cert. Ed, B. Ed, Grad. Dip. Ed, Cambridge CELTA
Lecturer

Jackie worked with international students, migrants and refugees for many years in the U.K. She came to New Zealand in 2003, and has worked at AUT IH since 2004. She speaks French and some Spanish, and is the Harassment Contact at International House.

Mark Lewis BA, Cert. TESOL. Cert. Mandarin Studies
Lecturer

Mark has a background in business as well as teaching and has lived and worked in Asia for many years.
He speaks Chinese (Mandarin) and a little Japanese. He joined AUT IH in 2007.

Koru Vautier TESOL, BA. Eng. Lit.
Lecturer

Koru is from Auckland but grew up in Hong Kong. She has lived and taught English in Australia, Japan and Korea and joined AUT IH in 2007.       

Rachael Harding BA, RSA CTEFLA, RSA DELTA
Senior Lecturer

Rachael joined AUT International House in 2002 and oversees the afternoon programmes. She has worked in the Czech Republic, Spain and the UK, where she is originally from. Rachael has an interest in materials development, CALL and teacher training.