Renilde Montessori

Renilde Montessori is Maria Montessori’s youngest grandchild.  She lived and travelled with her grandmother as a child. She attended Montessori schools in Barcelona, Spain and Laren, the Netherlands, and completed her secondary school studies at the Montessori Lyceum in Amsterdam. In her late teens she audited one of Dr. Montessori’s courses in Adyar, India. Renilde Montessori worked in various fields of endeavour before joining the Montessori movement as personal assistant to her father Mario Montessori in 1968.  She went on to graduate from the Washington Montessori Institute in 1971 and from that time onward was actively involved in the work of the Association Montessori Internationale as lecturer, trainer and examiner. In 1989 the Foundation for Montessori Education was incorporated in Toronto, Canada. She served as Director of Training at this institution until 1995 when she took on the position of General Secretary of the AMI. She left this function in 2000 and served as President of AMI until 31 August 2004.