Charles Fadel is founder of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; visiting scholar at Harvard, MIT, and Wharton/UPenn; senior fellow, human capital at The Conference Board; co-author of best-selling book “21st Century Skills”. He has worked with education systems and institutions in more than thirty countries. He was formerly Global Education Lead at Cisco Systems.  He holds a BSEE, an MBA, and five patents.

David Graddol is a British linguist who has worked in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and history of linguistics. He is perhaps best known for his 1997 book “The future of English?”, published by the British Council, in which he offers scenarios for how English as a world language may develop. Most notably, he points out that native speakers of English are or will soon be outnumbered by those who speak English as a second or foreign language. In his plenary “English for the Future” he will explain the particular challenges the ELT community and stakeholders must face in the new century.