Associate Professor Dr Jirada Wudthayagorn is the Director of Chulalongkorn University Language Institute (CULI) and the President of the Asian Association of Language Assessment (AALA). In recognition of her research entitled ‘Mapping the CU-TEP to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR),’ she was presented with the ‘Outstanding Research Study Beneficial to Society’ awarded by the Rachadapisek Sompoch Endowment Fund of Chulalongkorn University in 2019. Her research focuses on language assessment, language policy, and large-scale language assessment.