is a trainer and manager with over 20 years’ experience in ELT, as teacher of adults and teens, Cambridge and IELTS examiner, academic manager and school director.  He has been based in Ecuador since 2001 and has trained teachers on internationally-recognised courses and qualifications including TKT, CELT-Primary and CELT-Secondary and TrinityCert, as well as running numerous local academic consultancies aimed at strengthening and up-dating teaching teams’ methodologies and classroom approaches.

He has an MA in ELT  (with distinction, from the University of Sussex, UK) and is interested in the challenges of applying international standards and considered best practices in a Latin American context – especially in the state sector.