Helen Hong Ding Holds a Doctoral Degree in Education, with specialization in International Education at Northcentral University, U.S.A. And Master degree in Fine Art, Multimedia Art from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She grew up in Singapore and educated in Europe which provided a great opportunity for her multi-language capacity, English, French, Chinese dialect.

Helen is an IB authorized Visual Arts examiner for the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) and an appointment to the team of examiners responsible for visual arts higher/standard level of IB program; and appointed as the adjudicator of University of Art London, U.K. She gained IB Certificate of Visual arts teacher's training program (MYP Visual arts workshop held at International Youth college, Beijing. 2005; in addition, obtained a DP Visual arts training certificate in the workshop held at Somerset College, Brisbane, Australia. 2006), also she achieved an IB Certificate of experienced Visual arts teacher's training certificate this year in Dubai, UAE, March 2008.