David Nunan is Director of the English Centre of the University of Hong Kong and a Former President of TESOL. He is known throughout the language teaching world for his constant research into language learning. In addition, he has written over 200 articles on ELT methodology and research, has authored several ELT series, including Atlas, Go for it!, Listen In, Speak Out, and Expressions, and over more than 25 professional reference books on methodology and ELT research. He is a champion of action research and is a frequent contributor at international ELT conferences. However, when people ask what he does, David invariably answers, "I'm a teacher!"

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Jack Richards is a New Zealander who has had an international career in language teaching for over 30 years. He has taught in Canada, Brazil, Hawaii, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore, and has written many classic articles and books on methodology and teacher training, including Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, Curriculum Development in Language Tseaching, and Professional Development for Language Teacher. 

His classroom texts are widely used around the world and over 20 million students have studied English using them, include the best selling series Interchange, Person to Person, and Tactics for Listening. Sydney-based, Dr. Richards is an adjunct professor at Macquarie University, and also  teaches for part of each year at the Regional Language Centre, Singapore.

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Michael E. Rudder is the Regional English Language Officer (RELO) for Central America as well as Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela and is based at the U.S. Embassy in San José, Costa Rica. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Linguistics from Georgetown University, an M.A. degree in TESOL from Columbia University Teachers College, and a B.A. and M.A.T. in French from the University of North Carolina.

Before arriving in Central America in January 2003, he served as RELO for the Southern Cone based in Brasília. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he worked primarily in the Middle East as a teacher, teacher trainer, and academic consultant in the area of English Language Teaching, and he has several publications in EFL journals.

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Anita Lie earned her Doctor of Education from Baylor University, U.S.A.  In 1996 she was a guest lecturer in Curriculum Design and Implementation at SEAMEO RELC, Singapore.  
Currently, Dr. Anita Lie teaches at the Faculty of Teacher Education, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala, Surabaya and is a member of the Indonesian Community for Democracy (www.komunitasdemokrasi.or.id)

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Jane Orton, PhD is co-ordinator of Modern Languages Education at the University of Melbourne. Her teaching and research centre on intercultural learning and communication. Recent publications include English and Identity in China – An Engaged Native Speaker’s Perception. The Journal of Chinese Sociolinguistics, Vol.  2: No. 5, 2005: 41-59; Responses to Chinese Speakers of English, International Review of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 44: 3: 2006: 287-308.

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Dr Lim has taught in universities in both Singapore and Malaysia.  Prior to joining SEAMEO RELC he was an Assistant Professor at the English Language and Literature Academic Group, National Institute of Education, NTU (2001-2005).  His main areas of research include: Pragmatics, Translation and Spoken Discourse Analysis.  He has published research articles in both regional and internationally referred journals such as Babel, Bijdragen and the Journal of Modern Languages.  He is currently the co-editor of SEAMEO, Guidelines with Jack C. Richards.  

Dr Lim is actively involved in several academic and scholarly societies, namely the Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics and was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, London.

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Dr. Malachi Edwin Vethamani is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Educational Studies, University Putra Malaysia. He holds a doctorate in Literature in English from the University of Nottingham, England. He is a recipient of the Chevening Award (1993-1996) and the Fulbright Scholarship (2000). His latest publication is Developments in Teaching of Literature in English (Serdang: Universiti Putra Press, 2004).He is President of the Malaysian English Language Teaching Association (MELTA) and Executive Council member of Asia TEFL.

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Graham Lock is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Communication at the City University of Hong Kong, where he teaches a range of courses in language teacher education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has also worked on the development of an electronic grammar database for Hong Kong English teachers. He is the author of Functional English Grammar: An introduction for second language teachers (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and has also published in the areas of multimodal discourse and language and identity.

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Alan Pulverness is a freelance teacher trainer and materials writer and an Associate Trainer with the Norwich Institute for Language Education. He is the co-author of a number of ELT coursebooks, including the award-winning Short Course Programme (Macmillan 1993; Prentice Hall 1994). He has edited a schools’ edition of Macbeth(SEI 2000) and was editorial adviser for The Literary Labyrinth (SEI 1993) and The World Wide Reader (La Nuova Italia 2001). His most recent publications are (with Antoinette Moses) six volumes of New English Fiction (ELI 2003/2004) and (with Mary Spratt and Melanie Williams) The TKT Course (Cambridge University Press 2005).

He is a Chief Moderator for the Cambridge ESOL ICELT (International Certificate in English Language Teaching) and from 2000 to 2004 he was the editor of IATEFL Conference Selections.

His areas of special interest are interculturalawareness and the teaching of literature, and from 2002 to 2006 he was Co-Chair of the British Council Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature.

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Itje Chodidjah has worked as a free lance teacher trainer and consultant in ELT and Education, lecturer, and translator. With over twenty years of experience as a teacher and some more 10 years of experience as trainer, she has built up substantial expertise in giving training and consultancy in educational field. Her professional background also includes project design, implementation and monitoring in a range of settings. She has extensive experience working with government agencies and schools. She is currently working for the British Council as Education Consultant. With her team she set up LEAP (Learning Partnership) an NGO that deals with education. She is active in giving papers and presentation and conducting workshops in national, regional and international forums.

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