Organising Committee

Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Professor, DSc in Linguistics, Нead of Foreign Languages Department at the Faculty of Economics (RUDN University), Chairperson of the Business and Vocational Foreign Languages Teachers National Association. Editor-in-chief of Issues of Applied Linguistics and Training Language and Culture research journals.

Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, DSc in Linguistics, Professor of English Language Department No.4 at Moscow State University of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia (MGIMO University). Specialises in functional linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, rhetoric, the culture of professional and business communication, including business English communication, linguosynergetics, theoretical grammar, and British and American studies.

Academician of International Teacher’s Training Academy of Science, Doctor in Pedagogics. Professor of Methodology in Foreign Languages Department at the Institute of Foreign languages, Moscow Pedagogical State University (MPGU University). Lectures on Theory and Methodology of Foreign Language Teaching, Distance Technology in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, Higher School Pedagogy and Psychology, Psychology of Intercultural Communication.

Emeritus Professor at Nottingham University, Visiting Professor at the University of Limerick, Newcastle University, and Penn State University. One of the founders of Corpus Linguistics.

DSc in Linguistics, Professor, Department of English Language Studies, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

CSc in Linguistics, Associate Professor, Foreign Languages Department, Faculty of Economics, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University).

Professor at Birkbeck College, London University. Professor at the British School of Leadership and Management, Glasgow Caledonian University London. Author of textbooks on Business English.

DSc in Culture Studies, Lecturer at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and the International Institute of Public Administration and Management.

Coordinator of International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), author of teaching materials and resource books published by Cambridge University Press, Doctor of Philology in Applied Linguistics.