1. David Nunan

David Nunan is Emeritus Professor at the University of Hong Kong, a position he has held since 1994. He also holds concurrent positions as Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Newport Asia Pacific University and Senior Academic Advisor to Global English Corporation. He has also held positions at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, the Regional Language Centre, Singapore, and Macquarie University in Sydney. Professor Nunan has published over 100 scholarly books and articles on the impact of English as a global language as well as task-based language teaching, a method he pioneered in the 1990s. He is a world renowned linguist and specialist in the field of TESOL. He is past President of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), is currently the President of Anaheim University and teaches at the Hong Kong University.

2. Alan Maley

Alan Maley has been involved in ELT and Applied Linguistics for over 40 years. From 1962 to 1988 he worked for the British Council as English Language Officer in Yugoslavia, Ghana, Italy, France and PR China, and as Regional Director in South India (Madras). He was awarded the OBE in the Qiueen's New Years Honours list in 1989, for services to English Language Teaching in France. He then became Director-General of the Bell Educational Trust in Cambridge (1988-93). After leaving Cambridge, he took up the post of Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore from 1993 to 1998.  In 1999 he set up the MA programme in ELT at Assumption University, Bangkok, where he stayed till 2003.  He has published widely in professional journals and published over 30 books in the field of ELT. He has also been Series Editor for the Oxford Resource Books for Teachers for the past 20 years. He is now a freelance writer and consultant, and Visiting Professor at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He spends about half of the year lecturing at universities and conferences, mainly in Asia.

3 . MINEO NAKAJIMA

Professor Mineo Nakajima
UMAP Ambassador
President, Akita International University, Japan
Former UMAP Secretary General

Born in Matsumoto City (Nagano Prefecture, Japan) in 1936
B.A., China Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1960
M.A., International Relations, The University of Tokyo, 1965
Ph.D., Sociology, The University of Tokyo, 1980

• Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies from 1977 to 2001
• President of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies from 1995 to 2001
• Vice-President of the Japan Association of National Universities from 1998 to 2001
• Secretary-General of the University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific (UMAP) from 1998 to 2006
• Committee member of the Central Education Council (Chairperson of the Graduate School    
• Department) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) from 2001 to 2007
• President of the University Seminar House, Inc., from 2000 to 2006
• Executive Board Member of the Talent Education Research Institute, Inc., from 1996 to 2006
• Visiting professor successively at the Australian National University; Insutitut d’?tudes
• Politiques de Paris; The Graduate School of IR/PS, University of California, San Diego
• Member, Cabinet Education Rebuilding Council from 2006 to 2008

Publications:
Gendai Chuugokuron
(On Contemporary China: Ideology and Politics, Aoki Shoten, 1964)
Chuuso Tairitsu to Gendai
(The Sino-Soviet Confrontation in Historical Perspective, Chuo Koron Sha, 1978)
Pekin Retsu Retsu
(Beijing in Flux, Chikuma Shobo 1981) <received the Suntory Academic Prize>
Kokusai Kankei Ron
(International Relations, Chuo Koron Sha, 1992)
Chuugoku-Taiwan-Honkon
(China,Taiwan and Hong Kong, PHP Institute, 1999)
“Foreign Relations: from the Korean War to the Bandung Line”
(Cambridge History of China, vol.14, Cambridge University Press, 1987)
Nijuisseiki no Daigaku
(Universities in the 21st Century, Ronso sha, 2004)
and many others.
Awards, etc.
The Suntory Academic Prize, 1981
The Prize of Chinese Culture, 2001
The Grand Order of the Star, Republic of China, 2002
The “Seiron” Big Prize, Fuji-Sankei Group, 2004

 

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