Dr. Rose Clesham is the Director of Academic Standards and Measurement, at Pearson. She holds a Master’s Degree in Formative and Summative Assessment from Cambridge University and a Doctorate in Educational Assessment. Her research interests include the development of e-assessment and Artificial Intelligence, and on-going international educational strategies and policy.

Nobuyuki Hino (Ph.D.) is Professor, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University, Japan. Along with numerous book chapters and journal articles on the teaching of English as an international language (EIL), his latest single-authored book is EIL Education for the Expanding Circle: A Japanese Model (Routledge, 2018).

Dr Hanan Khalifa is Head of Research and International Education at Cambridge Assessment: English. She holds a PhD in Language Testing from Reading University and a professional MA from Cambridge University. Her publications include: Action Research, Mixed Methods in Language Testing, Examining Reading, Assessing students with disabilities and Test Development Manual.

Professor Ee-Ling Low (PhD: Cambridge, U.K.) is Dean of Teacher Education and Professor of Applied Linguistics and Teacher Learning at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. She is internationally renowned for her scholarship in World Englishes, Pronunciation Research and Practice and Teacher Education and is President of the Singapore Association for World Englishes.

Ahmar Mahboob is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. His work focusses on applications of language science for community improvement, especially in the context of disadvantaged and exploited societies.

Catherine Nickerson is a Professor at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates. She has published widely on English for Specific Business Purposes, mostly recently the Palgrave MacMillan volume Teaching Business Discourse (2019). She is interested in business English as a lingua franca and in the use of mobile technologies.

Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL at the University of Sydney. His most recent publications are Getting Published in Academic Journals (with Sue Starfield, University of Michigan Press, 2016), The Discourse of Peer Review (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Writing for Research Purposes (Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2018).

Jean Parkinson teaches Applied Linguistics and TESOL at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests include Language for Specific Purposes, science discourse, and language use in vocational education. Recent publications include articles in English for Specific Purposes, Vocations and Learning and International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

Prof. Bernd Rüschoff, Chair in Didactics and Applied Linguistics at Duisburg-Essen University. Research areas: digital tools in language learning, language & culture, bilingual education, corpus linguistics and data-driven learning, competency-oriented principles in language learning. Member of the Professional Network Forum, a think tank of the Council of Europe’s European Centre for Modern Languages, and of a CoE expert group involved in the current launch of the new CEFR Companion Volume. He is a former president of AILA, the International .Association for Applied Linguistics.

Assoc Prof Ana Pellicer-Sánchez is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the UCL Institute of Education. Her research interests centre around the teaching and learning of vocabulary in a second/foreign language. Her most recent research examines the incidental acquisition of single words and multi-word expressions from reading using the eye-tracking methodology. Recent books include Understanding Formulaic Language (Routledge, in press) (co-authored with Siyanova-Chanturia) and Eye tracking: A Guide for Applied Linguistics Research (CUP, 2018) (co-authored with Conklin and Carrol).

Cynthia White is Professor of Applied Linguistics, Massey University, New Zealand. She has published widely on distance and online learning, learner autonomy, learning strategies, and agency and emotion in language learning and teaching. Her most recent work is on the agency of EAP practitioners in transitioning to scholarship.

Dr Johanna Motteram is an experienced English language teacher and language assessment specialist based in Singapore. She works with British Council colleagues globally to develop tests and deliver evidence-based programs to support English language learning. She also provides advice on assessment related problems to governments, schools and other stakeholders.