Speakers

Prof. of Language Education

School of Cultures, Languages, and Linguistics

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Martin East is Professor of Language Education in the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics where he primarily teaches courses in language teaching and learning. Prior to this appointment, Martin was a language teacher educator in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland, where he worked mainly with pre-service teachers of languages other than English. His research sits at the intersection between second language acquisition, language pedagogy and teacher education, and he publishes widely in areas related to stakeholders’ reception of innovative practices. He is currently President of the International Association for Task-Based Language Teaching; a worldwide organization of scholars interested in and active contributors to the field of TBLT. Moreover, he is an active worker for the development of policies to support the teaching and learning of languages other than English in contexts where English is the predominant language.

Prof. of Literature

La Rochelle University, France

Dr Waterman is a member of the research team CRHIA (Center for Research in International and Atlantic History); he is also Director at University Asia Pacific Institute, and Director of the PhD programme in the Humanities. He is the author of Where Worlds Collide: Pakistani Fiction in the New Millennium (OUP, 2015). Dr Waterman is currently working on Pakistani history, culture, and literature in English, and has served on the editorial team of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies.

Associate Prof.

Department of English,

University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Prof. Dr Vahid received his PhD in TESL from University Putra Malaysia where he became a postdoctoral fellow in 2012 before he joined University Malaya as a research fellow for a year in 2013. He is currently an associate professor at UPM and the chief editor of the International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies based in Australia, and managing editor of Journal of Language and Communication, UPM, Malaysia

Former Professor of ELT & an Independent Researcher

University of Leeds, UK

Prof. Dr Alan Maley has been involved in English Language Teaching (ELT) for over 50 years. He worked for the British Council in Yugoslavia, Ghana, Italy, France, China and India. For 5 years he was Director of the Bell Educational Trust in Cambridge. He worked in universities in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia as well as in his native country, UK. For 25 years Alan was Series Editor for the OUP Resource Books for Teachers series. He has published over 40 books and numerous articles

Lecturer in Sociophonetics

Department of Linguistics and Phonetics,School of Language, Culture, and Society

University of Leeds, UK

She coordinates the Language@Leeds ‘Embracing Linguistic Diversity’ satellite, a working group developing a series of initiatives to celebrate linguistic diversity and minimise language-based prejudices and disadvantages, starting from our University context. Her areas of expertise are Sociophonetics, Bilingualism, Speech perception, L2 speech learning, Acquisition of Sociophonetic variation, and Galician phoneticss

Teaching for Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization, Ministry of Education, Center for American Education,

James Cook University Singapore

Dr. George Jacobs is a well-known educator and vegan activist in Singapore. He completed his Bachelor of Arts (1980), and Master of Arts (1982), from the University of Illinois at Chicago, United States.   In 1991, he successfully completed his degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at, University of Hawaii, United States.He is a member of the boards of the following academic and activist organizations: International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education, Extensive Reading Foundation,
Vegetarian Society (Singapore)International Vegetarian Union Kampung  Senang

Associate Professor | Editor, Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies I Faculty Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta

 Author of ISIS: Ideology, Symbolics, and Counter-Narratives (Routledge 2019), The Religious Right and the Talibanization of America (Palgrave 2016), and Constructing Pakistan (Oxford 2010), Masood Ashraf Raja specializes in postcolonial studies, globalization theory, and the study of Islamic cultures and politics. His critical essays have been published in various journals such as the South Asian Review, Caribbean Studies, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Prose Studies, Mosaic, Radical Teacher, and others. Raja has also co-edited two collections of essays, served on the PMLA Advisory Committee and has recently won and finished administering a one million dollar Department of State grant as the Director of UNT-NUML Partnership, a three-year cooperative agreement between UNT and the National University of Modern Languages, Pakistan. His next book, Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred, will soon be published by Lever Press.

Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics

University Malaya, Malaysia

Dr Chau Meng Huat began his career over 20 years ago as a teacher working with primary, secondary and high school students, before he took up a fellowship and joined University Malaya in 2010. At University Malaya, Meng Huat teaches and supervises research in Applied Linguistics. His research, teaching and supervision on topics in applied corpus linguistics, Global Englishes, language and writing development, multilingualism and TESOL have been motivated by ecojustice considerations, with a view to better understanding and enhancing the potential contribution of Applied Linguistics towards a sustainable world. Meng Huat holds adjunct and visiting appointments at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in China and De La Salle University-Dasmariñas in the Philippines. His publications include International Perspectives on Education and Corpus Applications in Applied Linguistics, both published by Bloomsbury.

Professor Emeritus and National Distinguished Professor

Dean School of Education, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore

Dr Tariq Rahman is an academic and a highly published scholar in the field of linguistics history and sociolinguistics. He is the recipient of the Humboldt research award and a higher doctorate (D.Litt.) from the University of Sheffield.In recognition of his scholarly work and research, government of Pakistan has awarded him Presidential Pride of Performance and Sitara-e-Imtiaz.

Vice-Chancellor at Riphah International University, Islamabad.

Prof. Dr. Anis Ahmad is a social scientist of international repute and founding Vice-Chancellor of Riphah International University. He carries a Ph.D. from Temple University, Pennsylvania, USA. He has held numerous academic leadership positions both nationally and internationally. He is former Vice President of International Islamic University, Islamabad, and founding Dean, Faculty of Revealed Knowledge & Human Sciences, International Islamic University, Malaysia. He is former President & Secretary-General of Association of Muslim Social Scientists, USA, and a Fellow of The University of Sains Malaysia. He writes on contemporary social, political, and cultural issues faced by the Muslim Ummah. He has contributed articles in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Muslims World, New York, the Encyclopedia of Islam, Istanbul, Turkey, the Encyclopedia of Islamic Economy, London, the Muslim World Book Review, UK, and other professional journals.

Director and Associate Prof.

English Language and Development Centre,

Mehran University, Jamshoro

Dr Pathan has received his first Master’s degree in English from Pakistan, followed by his second professional Master’s and Doctorate (PhD)  in Language Education from the University of Glasgow, the United Kingdom. Later, under the Hubert H. Humphrey’s professional affiliation opportunity. Dr Pathan did his Postdoctoral research at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in USA under supervision of Prof. Noam Chomsky who is known as father of modern linguistics and the most influential intellectual alive in the world. He is an experienced and qualified Associate Professor of linguistics from a British University with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Social Psychology of language learning and teaching, Lecturing in field of ELT/Linguistics with Strong business development professional with a Non Profit Management and Leadership Certification focused in Educational Leadership and Administration from Boston University Questrom School of Business, USA.

Prof. of English

Faculty of Management & Social Sciences

Capital University of Science & Technology, Islamabad

Dr Umar holds a PhD in linguistics with specialization in CALL, teacher development and open & distance learning. He has been  working as Associate Professor at Taif University English Language Centre, Saudi Arabia. Besides teaching, he is supervising Quality Assurance Unit at the Centre. He has taught at various universities in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and has published articles in reputable international research journals. He has thirty years of teaching experience at university level in Pakistan and abroad. He has published 3 books and more than 40 research articles in international as well as in pakistani journals. He has been an active member of many organizations like Higher Education Commission Pakistan, National Committee on English Pakistan, Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers, TESOL Arabia, KSA Association of Language Teachers, etc. His interest areas are teacher development, e-learning, and sociolinguistics. Also, he has contributed to the field of language teaching as a member of the Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers and Pakistan Higher Education Commission National Committee on English, etc

Assistant Prof. of Applied Linguistics

Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad

Dr Kamal is an Assistant Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad. He is a certified Master Trainer by HEC Pakistan, British Council and Asian Institute of Technology Bangkok (Thailand). He was a visiting (Ph.D.) scholar at Newcastle University (United Kingdom) in 2011, an exchange faculty at Dicle University (Turkey) in 2015 and a SUSI fellow at Seattle University (United States) in 2017. He is an active researcher and has won many projects funded by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan, RELO (Regional English Language Office) Pakistan and the FATA Secretariat (Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). Recently he initiated an exclusive platform titled as Pakistan ELT Forum (aka Pak TESOL) for the Pakistani ELT community with a focus to exchange ideas and encourage cooperation amongst the professionals of both public and private sectors of the country. Mainly based on ELT and Pakistani regional languages, he has presented his research work in UK, USA, France, Turkey and Russia.

Prof. of English

Director, International Centre for Pakistani Writing in English

Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore

Dr. Waseem Anwar had worked as Dean (Humanities) and Chair (English) at Forman Christian College and Government College Universities of Lahore. Twice recipient of Fulbright fellowships, for doctoral at IUP and postdoctoral at Duke, he served as the President of the Pak-US Alumni Network and Fulbright Alumni Association. A Gale Group American Scholar, he is bestowed with “Salam Teacher Award
– 2004” and HEC “Best Teacher Award – 2003.” He is serving the Executive Committee of the South Asian Literary Association for the third time. His book, “Black” Women’s Dramatic Discourse was published in 2009, while he also co-edited the 2010 South Asian Review special issue 31:3 on Pakistani creative writing in English. His Routledge, UK publication, Transcultural Humanities in South Asia is a 2022 forthcoming edited volume. With his interest in Critical Theory, a range of Anglo-American, European, South Asian, and postcolonial
literatures, he has written articles for various journals and is the founding Editor in Chief of JELLS, a research journal of Forman Christian College English Department. He has presented at numerous national and international conferences and is on the advisory and editorial boards of several nationally and internationally renowned research journals in his field.

Prof. Dr. Zia Ahmed has been working as Principal, Emerson University, Multan, Pakistan since March 02, 2020. He earned his PhD in 2012. He is serving as Adjunct Faculty at ISP, Multan, as Visiting Faculty at NUML, and BZU, Multan and Chairman Dept. of English at GEC, Multan. He has served BZU, Multan for a period of FIVE and ran the Dept. of English, as coordinator, under The DDE and successfully supervised 20 MPhil candidates. He is involved with BZ University Multan for PhD supervision as an approved Supervisor and is also rendering his services as subject expert to many universities of Pakistan and abroad, along with PPSC, Lahore. He is the author of many research papers in his subject. He teaches postcolonial feminist fiction, Pakistani fiction and postmodernist fiction. He visited University of North Texas, USA in 2015 and conducted his postdoctoral research. He has published 25 articles. He has given speeches/talks/lectures at local and National and international Level seminars and conferences, video Lecture in IIU Malaysia in Nov. 2017 and La Rochelle University, France on 6th May, 2019.

Former Dean Faculty of Social Sciences,

Air University, Islamabad

Dr  Wasima is working as a Director of Corpus Research Centre. After completing her MA TESOL from the University of Edinburgh, UK, She did her Ph.D. from the same university. Her areas of interest are Corpus Linguistics, Gender Studies, Discourse Studies, Academic and Technical Writing, Curriculum Development and Syllabus Design, and Language Planning and Policy. She is credited for 44 publications.

Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English at Riphah International University, Faisalabad Campus, Pakistan.

He is Convener of the Board of Studies, and member of the Board of Faculty at the same university. He is former Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of English of Women University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Bagh, Azad Kashmir. He was also Director of the Board of Advanced Studies and Research (BASR), and Convenor of the Board of Studies at that university. He has been visiting member of the faculty at various universities and other prestigious institutions. He is former Head of the Department of English and former Vice Principal of Islamabad Model College for Boys, G-6/3, Islamabad. He is also former Chairman of the Department of English of Islamabad Model Postgraduate College H-8, Islamabad. He has been a member of the Boards of Studies of the University of Punjab Lahore, Riphah International University Faisalabad and Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan. He has been a member of the National Curriculum Revision Committee of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan. He has a career as teacher trainer as well. He is a member of the Board of referees of various research journals. He has formerly held the positions of Programme Coordinator, Conference Coordinator, Workshop Coordinator, Academic Coordinator and Newsletter Coordinator of Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers (SPELT), Islamabad Chapter. Apart from his formal degrees of masters and doctorate in English (Pakistan), he has professional degrees of Postgraduate Diploma in English Language Teaching (Pakistan), Diploma TEFL (Pakistan), and a certificate on Crossing the Border: from Teaching to Training (England) on his credit. The research areas of his interest include English language teaching (ELT), syllabus designing, curriculum development, language policy and planning, multilingualism, and education policies with special focus on Asian countries. He has supervised a number of research scholars. He has published at international level. He has participated in ELLTA Conference, Bangkok, NELTA Conference, Katmandu, International Conference of University of Malakand and SPELT International Conferences, Islamabad and Abbottabad in different positions of plenary speaker, chair, and presenter. He has multifarious intellectual interests.