Professor Suresh Canagarajah
 Evan Pugh University Professor  of Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Professor Suresh Canagarajah, a Sri Lankan Tamil scholar in the fields of sociolinguistics, literacy, and English language teaching, is currently the Evan Pugh University Professor of Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is best known for introducing orientations to language and education from traditions and practices in the Global South to diversify dominant norms and policies in higher education and academia. Read More

Professor Stephen May
Professor, Te Puna Wānanga, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Professor Stephen May is a Professor in Te Puna Wānanga (School of Māori and Indigenous Education) in the Faculty of Education and Social Work and the Director of the cross-faculty and interdisciplinary Master of Regional Development program at the University of Auckland. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and at Taiyuan University of Technology, China. Read More

 Professor Sender Dovchin
 Senior Principal Research Fellow, Curtin University, Australia

Professor Sender Dovchin is a Senior Principal Research Fellow and  an Australian Research Council  Fellow. Her Australian Research Council DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) project focuses on empowering vulnerable youth in Australia by combatting linguistic racism. Read More

Plenary Speakers (Online)

Professor Robert Phillipson, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Robert Phillipson studied at Cambridge and Leeds Universities, UK, and has a doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. He worked for the British Council in Algeria, Yugoslavia, and London, before emigrating to Denmark in 1973. He is an emeritus Professor at Copenhagen Business School. Read More

  Professor Alastair Pennycook, PhD
  Professor Emeritus, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 

Alastair Pennycook is an Emeritus Professor of Language, Society, and Education at the University of Technology Sydney. He won the prestigious BAAL Book Prize for his books Posthumanist Applied Linguistics, Language and Mobility: Unexpected Places, and Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows. Read More

 Professor Sirpa Leppänen
 Professor Emeritus, Department of Language and Communication Studies
 University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Sirpa Leppänen is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has directed several extensive research projects focusing on multilingualism in Finnish society, with a particular focus on English and Finnish. Read More