Paweł Poszytek is a Board Member of the Foundation for the Development of the Education System, Director of the National Agency for Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP, formerly SOCRATES), and the national coordinator for the EUROPEAN LANGUAGE LABEL contest. He is a member of three European Commission consulting groups for foreign language teaching. He is also a member of the National Committee of The European Language Portfolio.
Formerly the national coordinator for the SOCRATES-LINGUA Programme, teacher and ELT methodology consultant at Siedlce Local Methodology Centre.

Alan Maley has been involved with English language teaching for 45 years. He worked for the British Council from 1962-1988, as English Language Officer in Jugoslavia, Ghana, Italy, France and China, and as Regional Director, South India (Madras).  He resigned from the British Council to become Director-General of the Bell Educational Trust in Cambridge (1988-93) and went on to become Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore (1993-98).  In 1999, he set up the Masters' programme in ELT at Assumption University, Bangkok, where he stayed till 2004.  He is currently Visiting Professor, Leeds Metropolitan University, and continues with freelance writing and consultancy work, especially in Asia.  He has published widely and was Series Editor for the Oxford Resource Books for Teachers from 1984-2009.

George Pickering is a freelance coach, consultant and trainer and has made presentations in over 40 different countries throughout the world. He is the senior tutor on the English UK Diploma in Language Teaching Management and a tutor on the Cambridge ESOL accredited International Diploma in Language Teaching Management. George is an inspector of language schools for the British Council in the UK (Accreditation UK). George was the treasurer of IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) for six years and is the co-ordinator of the ELT Management SIG (Special Interest Group). George has an MA in Applied Linguistics and is a Master Practitioner and certified trainer in NLP. He lives with his pet camel and monkey in Ramsgate, England.

Marek graduated from Warsaw University with an MA in English and has now taught English as a foreign language mostly to adult students for about 30 years. As a teacher he has taken special interest in examination classes and practical phonetics. He used to work as DoS for a well known language school in Warsaw and taught ELT methodology to post-graduate students at Wyższa Szkoła im. Pawła Włodkowica for a year only to find genuine language classroom experience far more rewarding. He has also cooperated with British ELT publishers by reporting on drafts of coursebooks and freelanced as a presenter at conferences for TEFL teachers. For well over a decade, Marek acted as an oral English language examiner at the British Council in Warsaw before taking a new challenge of representing City & Guilds – a leading UK and international awarding body, a job he has been performing in Poland for over two years now.

Jacky Newbrook is a teacher, teacher trainer and ELT author. She has been teaching English for over 30 years, both in the UK and abroad, and has travelled extensively giving seminars and presentations on a wide range of issues in ELT. She has been running training courses for overseas teachers for many years; she is particularly interested in independent learning, and has acted as consultant for schools and universities setting up self access centres. Jacky is an item writer for Cambridge ESOL, and an oral examiner for the Speaking Tests. She has co-authored 7 ELT coursebooks, including exam coursebooks for PET, FCE, CAE and CPE, and practice tests for CAE.

Ian Wood is currently the Publishing Manager eLearning for Pearson Longman ELT. He has been with Pearson since 2000 and has published Business English titles, worked in the Middle East and was Head of Exams publishing 2005-7. Before that he worked as a teacher, ELT author, Cambridge ESOL item writer and Cambridge examiner. In his current role he is responsible for finding out about new technologies and evaluating their potential for integration into current and future ELT courses.

A double MA in English & Linguistics (University of Essex, UK and University of Warsaw), PhD in Linguistics (University of Warsaw 2000). Head ELT Consultant for Macmillan Polska, teacher trainer, methodology adviser, ELT materials' writer,  former president of IATEFL-Poland (currently on its Honorary Committee). Founder and president of DOS-Teacher Training Solutions, an independent teacher development centre. Lecturer at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw since 1992. His chief professional interests are teacher development (incl. applications of new media and new technologies), syllabus design (incl. classroom implications of CEFR), education towards plurilingualism (incl. ELF-related issues, re-defining pedagogical objectives, maintaining standards of excellence).  Grzegorz is the author of a number of articles, reviews and EFL materials. His track record also includes a section on Polish in 'Learner English' edited by M. Swan & B. Smith, CUP.  As a consultant he has contributed to Macmillan’s best-selling Revise ForMatura Repetytorium. His most recent work is Egzamin Gimnzajalny. Repetytorium z testami (co-author: Marta Rosińska, Macmillan 2008).

Tell me More® Product Manager. Representative of EVCL Polska Sp. z o.o. – accredited distributor of Tell me More® learning solutions for education for the territory of Poland. Responsible for sales and promotion of Tell me More® Campus and Tell me More® Education solutions. Responsible for training, consultancy and support for schools and universities implementing Tell me More solutions in their FLT offer.

International Sales Manager. Representative of AURALOG SA – international multimedia publisher of language learning solutions. Auralog offers solutions for three different markets: education, corporate and retail. Auralog’s products are available in more than 65 countries all over the world. Justyna Schab is responsible for promotion and sales of Tell me More® solutions for education and corporate market for the territory of Central and Eastern Europe, Japan and Korea. Coordinates implementing of Tell me More® online solutions within wide range of tailor-made projects in high-schools, universities and corporations.

John Murray is Online Sales Director for Oxford University Press. He began his career as an English language teacher, and has over twenty years experience in educational publishing encompassing academic, curriculum education and English language teaching for organizations such as Macmillan, Cambridge University Press and the Open University. For the past five years his principal focus has been on digital content delivery in education.

Manager and owner of NaukaBezGranic.pl, art and educational agency promoting cross curricular and cross-cultural foreign language events in Poland. Former marketing director for Central Europe and The Baltics with Pearson Longman, Teacher Training Coordinator with Macmillan Polska, director of studies at Bell Language School, teacher at International House. Currently also acting as methodology advisor for Learning Systems Poland. MBA at Herriott Watt University in Edinburgh in progress.

Brendan Wightman taught General and Business English in Poland and Italy for seven years before moving into technology-enhanced learning. He is an expert on blended learning and instructional technologies and his experience with e-learning includes course design and software development for ELT, project managing interactive whiteboard CD-ROMs and teacher training. He now works for Cambridge ELT as Commissioning Editor for e-Learning.

Artur Bartoszewicz is an expert on EU funds, public aid, and results-oriented budgets. He is a consultant and trainer with over 10 years of experience in grant management, including preparation of applications for EU grants, business plans, feasibility studies; financial analyses, public aid; monitoring; evaluation; running training workshops and seminars; project management in accordance with EU regulations; submitting applications and preparing ToR replies; feasibility analyses and studies.
He is on the national list of experts accredited with the Minister of Regional Development to promote civic society through supporting NGOs as well as social and business partners; improving adaptability of employees and entrepreneurs; counteracting social exclusion; supporting higher education as part of the Human Capital Operational Programme.
Artur is an expert with the Polish Confederation of Private Employers Lewiatan specializing in the evaluation of operational programmes and their usefulness for employers and entrepreneurs; evaluation of programme implementation and risk analysis; spreading knowledge about EU funds, recommending procedure changes; preparation of Lewiatan’s statements and positions with regard to absorption of EU funds in Poland; cooperation with relevant EU institutions and monitoring changes in EU cohesion policies.

Is one of the founders of the Polish Association of Standards in Language Education. He is founder and director of the Bell Institute for English Language Studies in Krakow and ELT Management lecturer at The Gama-Bell Teacher Training College. He is also scriptwriter and director of English language television series such as "Windy Lifts", "Ups & Downs" "Lippy & Messy" and a serial for teenagers "The Best Guest Show" produced by the Polish public television, and broadcast nationwide on TVP - Channel One. Since April 2008 Wojciech has been Chair of the Marketing Sub-Committe of EAQUALS, the European Association for Quality Language Services.