Nicholas Towns obtained a combined Bachelor (Hons) in English and History, as well as a Master's of English at Carleton University, in Ottawa.  He completed his Bachelor of Education at Queen's University.  For ten years, he worked in the field of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) therapy, which brought him to his first post overseas in Indonesia.  As a therapist, he worked with children on the autism spectrum. Nicholas was a founding member of the Grade 7 programme at SIS in 2012, and has also taught at the high school level.