The Plenary Speakers for New Directions 2022 include key thought leaders, policy makers, educational experts and tertiary education specialists in the field of English Language Assessment.
Anindito Aditomo, Ph. D is the Head of the Agency for Standardization, Curriculum and Assessment in Education, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, Republic of Indonesia
Dr. Willy A Renandya is a Principal Lecturer at the ELL Department, National Institute of Education, Singapore.
Dr. Neus Figueras is a founding member of EALTA (European Association for Language Testing and Assessment), and is currently the coordinator of the EALTA CEFR SIG.
Professor Barry O'Sullivan is Head of the Assessment Research Group at the British Council.
Dr. Guoxing Yu is Professor of Language Assessment at University of Bristol.
Masashi Negishi is a professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.
Dr. Sara Vispoel is the Chief Assessment and Learning Officer at Finetune.
Dr. Hikyoung Lee is a Professor at the Dept. of English Language and Literature, College of Liberal Arts, Korea University
Dr. Mariano Felice is a Senior Researcher and Data Scientist for Language Assessment and Learning at the British Council.
Kaśka Porayska-Pomsta is Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Education at the University College London, IOE UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, UCL Knowledge Lab.
Dr. Sisilia Setiawati Halimi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia.
Mary Page is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton, UK.
Geoff Stead is the Chief Product Officer (CPO) at MyTutor in the UK
Mina Patel is a researcher with the Assessment Research Group at the British Council.
Dr. Amol Padwad is currently Professor and Director, Centre for English Language Education, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Delhi.
Richard Covington is a Project Manager at Ecctis.
Ian has worked in a range of education roles in the UK and Asia. He is currently Head of English Programmes for East Asia at the British Council.
Dr. Subhan Zein is Asia TEFL Book Series Editor-in-Chief and Director of Research Publications.
Sue Davies is the Head of English Division, LSPR Institute of Communication & Business
Dr Nick Saville is the Director of Thought Leadership for Cambridge English and the elected Secretary-General of the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE).