Alan MackenzieNILE Consultant Trainer

Alan has been an English language teaching professional since 1989. He started in language schools in Japan and then moved to the tertiary sector. He was a project manager for British Council for ten years across East and South Asia. Responsible for all training projects in East Asia, he then moved to work on large scale development projects at state level in India (West Bengal, New Delhi Municipal Corporation, Haryana, Maharashtra) and Pakistan, as architect and Project Director for the Punjab Education and English Language initiative (PEELI) project.

From 2014, he was an Academic Director at NILE for three years and is now a Consultant for NILE and Module Leader for the Developing Learner Autonomy module on the MAPDLE programme. He has been advisor to the boards of Thailand TESOL, Philippines Association for Language Teaching, Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers and English Language Teacher’s Association of India. He has also worked with multiple state ministries of education across East and South Asia.

As director of Transform ELT, a consultancy he formed in 2017 with Alan Pulverness and Sarah Mount, he now designs, develops, implements and evaluates large scale change projects both online and face to face around the world.