Charles Fadel is founder of the Center for

Curriculum Redesign; visiting scholar at

Harvard, MIT, and Wharton/UPenn; senior

fellow, human capital at The Conference Board;

co-author of best-selling book 21st Century

Skills. He has worked with education systems

and institutions in more than thirty countries. He

was formerly Global Education Lead at Cisco

Systems. He holds a BSEE, an MBA, and five

patents.

‘21st Century Skills’

Carol Read has over 30 years’ experience in English

language teaching as a teacher, teacher trainer, academic

manager and materials writer. She has taught students of all

ages and levels, from very young children to adults. Carol’s

main specialisation is in primary language teaching and she

has run numerous teacher education courses and worked as

an educational consultant in many different countries in

Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Carol has published extensively in the field of teaching

English to young learners, including course books,

supplementary materials, online storytelling and CLIL

projects, as well as many articles on primary ELT

methodology. Carol’s award-winning titles include Is it a

Butterfly? which won an Extensive Reading Foundation

Award in 2005, Bugs (with three co-authors), which won a

British Council Innovation Award in 2006, and 500 Activities

for the Primary Classroom which was Highly Commended in

the ESU Duke of Edinburgh awards in 2007 (all published by

Macmillan Education). Her most recent publication,

Footprints, is a highly successful, fully-digital, primary

coursebook series. Carol is currently Vice-president of

IATEFL.

‘Creative teaching, creative learning’

Jamie Keddie is a Scottish teacher, teacher

trainer, writer and presenter. He studied

Biochemistry at the University of Aberdeen but

found his true passion in life as an English

teacher in Barcelona. Jamie is the founder of

LessonStream.org, a site dedicated to the use

of video clips and other visual materials in the

language classroom. The site was formerly

known as TEFLclips and won a British Council

ELTons award in 2008. His publications include

Images in the Resource Books for Teachers

series by Oxford University Press, and his self-

published ebook Videotelling. Jamie is an

associate trainer at Norwich Institute for

Language Education in the United Kingdom.

Although he has shared his ideas with teachers

all over the world, this will be Jamie's first ever

visit to Mexico. His is very much looking forward

to the trip!

‘Videotelling – Using video in the

ELT classroom’

Paul Woods is the British Council's English

Language Adviser for the "southern cone" of the

Americas. He has taught English, trained

teachers and managed projects in ELT in over

40 countries. He is currently the Programme

Manager for the Ceibal en Inglés Project in

Uurugay. Amongst other large scale projects,

he managed the British Council's Peacekeeping

English Project in 27 countries from 2001 to

2005 and the Secondary and Technical English

Project in Mozambique from 1996 to 2001.

‘The English Language

Crystal Ball’

Gail Ellis has over 30 years’ experience in English

language teaching and has taught children, teenagers

and adults and trained teachers in many different

countries including England, China, Mexico, Brazil

and Turkey. She is Adviser Young Learners and

Quality for the British Council and is based in Paris,

France. She has published widely in the field of

English language teaching, and was winner of the first

Frank Bell prize in 1991 for Learning to Learn English

published by Cambridge University Press. She has

also published Tell it Again! The New Storytelling

Handbook for Primary Teachers and The Primary

English Teacher’s Guide New Edition, published by

Penguin Longman. She is currently working on a

book, Learning to learn English for young learners for

Delta publications. She was awarded an MBE for her

services to the teaching of English to young learners

in the Queen’s Birthday Honours Awards in 2004.

‘Promoting diversity through

children’s literature’

‘Mentors, Myths, and Memories:

The Dream Lives of Teachers’

JJ Wilson has taught in Egypt, Lesotho,

Colombia, the U.K., Italy and the U.S., where

he is currently the Writer-in-residence at

Western New Mexico University. He has co-

authored several ELT courses, including

Language to Go, Worldview, and Total English,

and was Series Editor on the second edition of

Postcards (all Pearson Education). His

methodology book, How to Teach Listening,

won an English Speaking Union prize for the

Best Book for Teachers of 2008. His short

fiction has been anthologised by Penguin and

Pulp Faction, among others. JJ’s most recent

ELT course is Speakout, Pearson Education’s

new series for adults, which won the Duke of

Edinburgh English Speaking Union prize for the

Best Book of 2011.

John Knagg

‘Great Teaching, Great Learning:

Let’s Make It Happen!’

John Knagg OBE is Head Research and

Consultancy for English at The British Council

UK. John is a qualified teacher who has worked

in Europe, the Middle East and East Asia as

well as almost a decade in Latin America. He is

responsible for British Council publications in

English and conceived and commissioned the

Directory of UK ELT Research, the British

Council ELT Research Partnership Awards.

John is the chief judge of the BC awards for

Innovation in ELT (the ELTons), and is a

member of the editorial panel of the English

Language Teaching Journal. He has travelled

widely to advise on policy matters in the area of

English language education.