Ms. Leah Ding, graduated with a master’s degree in Economics from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, after first obtaining a BA from the same institution. After graduation, Ms. Ding worked at a Middle School in Shanghai. During that time, she served as Administrative Director, Academic Director, and Student Office Director. She was appointed Vice Principal when she was 27 years old, and became Principal a few years later. Ms. Ding worked at that Middle School for eighteen-and-a-half years. After years of hard work by Ms. Ding, the School grew to become a sizable education group becoming the most outstanding Middle School in the district, the city, and eventually, the country. After it became a member of the WTO, China sent experts overseas to research advanced education systems worldwide, and Ms. Ding was chosen to be one of them. Her first time studying abroad, Ms. Ding was sent to the University in Germany for half a year, and later to Russia. After that, she was sent to the USA, based at the University of Maryland, to study the American educational system. Subsequently, she was sent to Canada for two years, during which she went to the University of Alberta, and University of British Columbia to research the local educational systems. After immigrating to Canada, Ms. Ding established D & J Education Consulting Inc. and the Canadian Youth Leadership Training Centre, devoted to designing educational pathways for high school students and to leadership training, respectively. After years of study, research, and thought, Ms. Ding has distilled and applied a set of highly effective practices that leading universities use to recruit students, including her own original conceptualization, referred as the Five Certificates Theory. In recent years, Ms. Ding established D & H College, an education and training institute, the course offerings of which include a TESOL diploma program, and ESL English training.