Est. 2024About the school
A school founded on an invoice.
Every school has a founding story; ours involves a software quotation with one zero too many. Behind the lessons are two instructors: an engineer who builds simulations for a living and a mathematician who has taught for three decades.
01 The founding
Why does this school exist? Because of a renewal notice. Early in his career, working on simulation models for Transport for London, Harry Munro saw what the licensed software his trade depended on actually cost; the sort of figure that makes learning a programming language feel like a bargain. So he learned one. Python, and the open-source SimPy library, turned out to do everything the expensive suites did, with no invoice and no black box.
A decade of client work followed: railways, mines and technology companies; models built, defended and handed over. What did not exist anywhere along the way was a place that taught the whole craft; not the syntax alone, but the scoping, the validation and the delicate art of presenting a stochastic answer to an impatient board.
The School of Simulation opened in 2024 to be that place. The conviction behind it is simple: simulation is a craft best taught by people who still practise it.
02 The founder
Harry Munro CEng MIMechE MSc BEng (Hons.)
Harry is a Chartered Engineer with more than a decade of industry experience spanning technology, simulation and AI, in companies large and small. He has led simulation work at Transport for London, Anglo American, First Mode and Improbable; models whose answers have informed decisions worth over £100 million.
He founded the School of Simulation in 2024 and remains an active industry consultant. He would argue the two roles depend on each other: the consulting keeps the teaching honest, and the teaching keeps the consulting articulate.
Originally from London and based in Bermuda since 2023, Harry helps people and companies around the world reach their technical goals. The remaining hours go on being a dad and on defending enthusiastic amateur status at skiing, sailing and squash. Island life agrees with him; so, in sensible quantities, does the rum.
03 The co-instructor
Dr Ron Erez
Programmer · Educator · Mathematician
Ron has written code for more than thirty years and has spent most of them teaching others to do the same. A mathematician by training and an educator by temperament, he has taught mathematics, computer science and English literature at every level, from middle-school classrooms to university lecture halls.
At the school he leads Data Science Mastery: pandas, statistics and machine learning, taught so that a simulation's output becomes an argument rather than a spreadsheet.
He builds courses the way he teaches: patiently, precisely and in the firm conviction that anyone can learn to code. Away from the keyboard he enjoys cooking, cleaning, skateboarding and the everyday joys of life.