Hyejeong Ahn is a Senior Lecturer at the academic group of Language and Literacy at Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Her professional experience as an educator spans three countries, including Australia, South Korea and Singapore. Her research interests include sociolinguistics in the areas of world Englishes, cultural linguistics, Korean linguistics and intercultural communication. She is the author of a monograph Attitudes to World Englishes: Implications for teaching English in South Korea (Routledge). Her research draws on an evidence-based approach, documenting and evaluating the fast-changing language and literacy skills required for students to participate in international affairs actively and meaningfully in the global context. Jieun Kiaer is Professor of Korean Linguistics at the University of Oxford, UK. She is the Series Editor for Routledge Studies in East Asian Translation and publishes widely on lexical interaction between East Asian languages and Englishes. Her recent publications include The History of English Loanwords in Korean (2014), Translingual Words: An East Asian Lexical Encounter with English (Routledge 2018 ), Delicious Words: East Asian Food Words in English (Routledge 2020) and Korean Wave in World Englishes (with Kherdun-Burgoine, Routledge 2022).

She is also acting as a Korean consultant for the Oxford English Dictionary (2021-). Danica Salazar is the Executive Editor for World Englishes for Oxford Languages, where she leads editorial projects for world varieties of English, as well as researches and writes World English entries for the Oxford English Dictionary. She publishes and lectures regularly on lexicography, phraseology, World Englishes and Spanish- and English-language teaching. Dr Salazar is the author of Lexical Bundles in Native and Non-native Scientific Writing (2014), co-editor of Biomedical English: A Corpus-based Approach (2013), and co-author of several language textbooks for learners of Spanish. Anna Bordilovskaya obtained her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Kobe University. She holds a Master's degree, also in Linguistics, from Kobe University, and a Specialist Diploma in Linguistics and Language Education from the Far-Eastern State University of Humanities in Khabarovsk, Russia.

Anna has been working as a project assistant professor for the ALESS/ALES Program at the University of Tokyo since April 2019. Her research interests include language and culture contact, language acquisition and World Englishes.