Prof. Saran KAUR GILL
	Member of the Regional Scientific Committee for Asia and the Pacific

Country: Malaysia Current position: Professor, School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia), Selangor, Malaysia Academic discipline: Ph.D. in Language and Communication, University of London, England Published in areas of: Language Policy and Planning in Higher Education in Malaysia; Sociolinguistics and International Communication; Intercultural Training Division on Centre for Academic Development; Member, the Board of Editorial Advisers of academic journal Asian Englishes. Recipient of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Excellence Award for Enhancing the Image of UKM at the National/International Levels, in the category of Human Resource Development for Intercultural Communication Training Programme of 10,000 volunteers for the XVIth Commonwealth Games, 1998. Recipient of Fulbright Scholars Award for Research on “Language policy-Managing Ethnic, National and Global Identities” at University of Pennsylvania, 2006.