About me

Christopher Graham

I have been working in English language teaching since 1981, as a teacher, director of studies and corporate courses manager. Subsequent to this, I was the founder and then managing director of English Worldwide, an ELT consultancy running projects across the globe. Amongst these projects was the nine-year ELT curriculum renewal process in the Sultanate of Oman, the setting up of a distance-learning Trinity College TESOL Diploma in Italy and the organising of EFL teaching operations for companies in remote parts of Russia and the Caucasus.

Since the sale of English Worldwide in 1998, I have worked as a freelance ELT teacher educator, consultant and writer. In total I have worked in over 30 countries. You will find more about my recent projects on this website. I have a wide range of interests within ELT and these include the integration of 21st century skills into content and delivery, technological applications to support teaching in challenging locations and looking beyond the ELT ‘bubble’ for transferable practices and processes.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a member of the Society of Authors.

In 2019, I was one of the founder members of the ELT Footprint movement that strives to help the ELT community understand its responsibilities and opportunities in the climate emergency. In 2020, ELT Footprint was a winner of an international ELTons award. You can find out more here https://eltfootprint.org/. My work on the interface between ELT and climate change has included working with the British Council on the researching and authoring of a major report into the ELT sector and climate change, writing a series of climate change-related ELT lesson plans, and chairing and joining a series of panels and forums around the topic.

I am a member of the IATEFL Conference Committee and am also on the Mentoring Steering Committee of EVE - Equal Voices in ELT.

I also have an interest in intercultural communication, and am a guest lecturer on an international MBA at a German university in that field as well as running courses for international organisations deploying staff around the world.