Conference Trustees
Current Trustees, along with the conference years in which they were organisers, are:
William Savage (1993 1995)
William Savage was on the faculty of the Center for Language and Educational Technology of 
the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand, from 1989 until 2001. In 1993 he was involved in organizing the first Language and Development Conference at AIT, out of which came the 1997 Longman book Language and Development: Teachers in a Changing World, co-edited with colleague Brian Kenny. Since he left AIT, William has been working as an organizational and community development facilitator with non-profit organizations, United Nations and government agencies, most recently in the areas of maternal health, HIV and AIDS, and child rights. In 2008, he moved home to Louisiana, USA, where he now lives among his extended family, continuing to travel as a consultant, and teach yoga, write, garden and ride horses. William’s most recent publication appears as the opening chapter in the 2010 Multilingual Matters book Language and HIV/AIDS.
Tony Crooks (1995 1997)
Tony Crooks attended the initial conference on Language and Development in Bangkok in 1993 and, inspired by the initiative, took up the baton to host the second conference in Bali in 1995, along with colleague Geoffrey Crewes, on behalf of the IALF (Indonesia Australia Language Foundation). Tony and Geoffrey co-edited a volume of proceedings from the Bali conference, published as Language and Development, and Tony edited a second slim volume entitled ESP in Southeast Asia.
Formerly Manager of the IALF in Bali, since leaving Indonesia in 1996 Tony has worked in Australia, the USA and Chile, and is currently based in South Africa, where he is Team Leader of Australia Awards for Africa, an Australian Government program that delivers 1,000 scholarships a year to African awardees. Since the program works with almost every country in Africa and is intended to provide equal opportunity to those who have and have not been educated in an English-speaking medium, as well as to students from regional areas, he continues to grapple with issues relating to language and access, power and equity in developing countries.
Website: www.adsafrica.com.au
Hywel Coleman
Hywel Coleman is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education, University of Leeds, UK, and also a Life Fellow of the University. 
He edited the proceedings of the 6th and 7th Language & Development Conferences (Tashkent 2003, Addis Ababa 2005). Other publications include Dreams & Realities : Developing Countries and the English Language (British Council 2011). Recent consultancies have been concerned with the pre-service education of English teachers in Indonesia and Pakistan, the continuing professional development of teachers in Indonesia and language in education policy in Pakistan and Indonesia. He was made OBE in 2000 for services to education in Indonesia.