
Weslie is the Senior Teacher Adults at the teaching centre. She is originally from Los Angeles, California, USA. She has a BSc in Business Administration and Management Information Systems and worked in IT for several years before becoming a teacher. She holds a Cert. TEFL, a Teaching One-to-One Certificate, a CELTYL, and a DELTA. She is also an IELTS examiner.
Prior to coming to Kyiv in 2011, Weslie worked for the British Council in Bahrain and also spent several years teaching in the Czech Republic. She enjoys teaching all levels and is proud to see her students improve and gain confidence in their English abilities. Weslie is keen on using ICT in the language classroom and making her lessons as communicative as possible.
In her free time, Weslie enjoys knitting, travelling, trying to keep fit, and relaxing at home with her husband and their world-travelling cat.

Brian was born in Scotland. He later moved to Australia, where he completed a Bachelors Degree in English Language and Literature, and History. He received his PGCE in English and History and began teaching in Australia before moving back to the UK. Brian completed his IHCYLT in 2011.
He has always been interested in teaching English, first teaching migrants as part of a government volunteer programme while he was studying his PGCE in Australia, and then spending a year teaching in Turkey. He moved to Kiev in 2009 and has enjoyed teaching Business English to some of Ukraine’s major companies. He loves using a variety of resources to contextualise English learning and produce challenging and engaging lessons.
His interests include socialising with friends, learning Russian and French, and creative writing. He has finished writing his first novel and is currently completing his second.

Elizabeth is from England. She has a BA honours in Russian and Soviet Studies and has a TESOL, a CELTYL and also a Trinity Diploma in English Language Teaching.
Liz started teaching at the British council in Kyiv when it first opened in 1992 when she first conducted teacher training and then trainer training. Currently, she is teaching pre-school children. She is also the Exams Team Leader for the British Council Kyiv centre.
Liz is interested in teaching very young children as well as Business English and Exams. Her personal interests include music, theatre reading and translation.

Rhonda is from Wales and has a degree in Modern Languages (Russian, French and Spanish). Her teaching qualifications include a Trinity TESOL certificate, the DELTA and the CELTYL.
She has taught in Russia, Portugal and Lithuania and started working for the British Council in Kyiv in 2003. Rhonda’s interests include horticulture, theatre, painting and cycling.

David is from the Highlands of Scotland and studied psychology at the University of Aberdeen before working with adults with learning disabilities. He completed his CELTA in 2006, after which he worked in Taiwan, Japan and Bahrain. There he continued his professional development by completing the YL extension to the CELTA.
Dave particularly enjoys teaching Young Learners but outside of work his other interests are football, squash, travelling, cooking and reading.

Daniel comes from England, Northern Ireland and the United States. He studied history at Tufts University in the US, and has an MSc in International Relations from Edinburgh University. He has been working as a teacher since 2005, and before coming to the British Council, he taught in the Czech Republic, Lviv, Spain, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, the US, as well as at various summer schools in the UK.
He’s got a PGCE in Secondary History & Social Studies, and is expected to complete his DELTA in December 2012. Daniel also did the IHCYLT in 2011. More than anything, he loves having the opportunity to shape young minds and impart his joy for the English language on his students. Among his extracurricular interests are sport, reading, writing, cooking (he’s ambitious, not necessarily good) and halfway decent conversation.

Katherine was born in Grodno, Western Belarus. She got her Bachelor’s and Master’s of Linguistics at Minsk State Linguistic University. After nine years of university teaching she made a gradual shift from dry theory to lively TEFL practice – and has not regretted it ever since.
Through the years Katherine has taught various English language courses for all ages in Minsk, Moscow, Kharkiv and Kyiv. A CAE/FCE examiner, her biggest interest is teaching IELTS and other exam preparation courses. Katherine has done CELTA (Grade A) and two modules of DELTA; she holds an IHCYLT and IELTS (Band 9) certificates.
In her free time, Katherine translates books from English into Russian (incl. novels by Chuck Palahniuk, Douglas Coupland, Neil Gaiman) and writes SF&F stories. In 2008, she was awarded the literary translation prize Zerkalo (‘Mirror’). Katherine is a member of the Russian Writers’ Union.

Olena comes from Dniepropetrovsk and graduated from The Dniepropetrovsk State University as a Psychologist and a Teacher of English Language. Lena has been teaching since 1994 straight after receiving an IH Certificate in TEFL. She also has IH Certificates in Teaching Young Learners, Teaching Business English, and Advanced Methodology.
She first started working for the British Council in Kyiv in February 2012 and before this she worked for International House Dnipro and then for International House Kyiv. Her teaching interests are Business English and teacher training.
Lena also enjoys using media as a teaching resource in class. Her other interests are travelling, dancing, yoga and Asian culture.

Dasha comes from Crimea and has Master’s degree from Taurida National Vernadskiy University as a teacher of English language and literature. She got her PhD in sociolinguistics in 2008. Dasha has also completed her CELTA and IHCYLT certificates and joined British Council Kyiv in June 2012.
Dasha’s teaching interests are: to communicate with different people, to establish good rapport with learners and to continue her development as a teacher. She likes sport and travelling.