Jane Driver is Principal at North Cambridge Academy in Cambridge. She is a Specialist Leader for Education in EAL and MFL, member of the British Academy Language Advisory Group and founded the ALL Peterborough MFL and EAL Hubs.

Jane co-created several nationally-recognised language projects including the Foreign Languages Spelling Bee, Translation Bee and Primary Bee.

Through her work in Cambridgeshire schools and with ALL, she has supported teachers and leaders with pedagogy, departmental improvement, and partnerships to support communities. Her work was recognised in 2021 with a Gold Pearson National Teaching Award for work with Gypsy-Roma and other hard-to-reach communities.

Jane has a passion for educational equity, and a strong belief that Languages and internationalism can be a vehicle for social mobility and community cohesion.

Richard worked as a partner at a law firm in London for many years. He has retired from practice and is now a non-practising Solicitor. He has wide experience of most aspects of private client work including trusts, wills and probate and associated tax planning and his work was international, and as a French speaker his work was particularly focused on France and French clients in London.

Richard holds two French medals: Officer dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques, and Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite.

Richard was a long serving Chair of ALL's Board of Trustees (ALL Management Board), and also serves on other language and education-based boards. From 01 September 2016, Richard became ALL's Treasurer on its Board of Trustees.

Following nearly two-decades in secondary education and initial teacher education in Austria, Hungary, Oxfordshire and the North East, Professor René Koglbauer-Franklin is currently Dean of Lifelong Learning and Professional Practice at Newcastle University and was appointed Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in 2017. René joined ALL when he started out his career as a language assistant in the UK in 1999.

After a period of time on ALL Council, René joined the Management Board as Honorary Finance Officer, was ALL President from 2014-2016 and continued as invited trustee. Since 2017, René holds the post of Chair of Management Board. Under his leadership, the Association underwent an organisational restructure. René represents ALL on various national and international steering groups, is a member of UCML’s executive board and is particularly interested in language curriculum, assessment and language policy.

Anna Lise Gordon has been a member of ALL since its inception. For the last 20+ years, she has worked in initial teacher education as MFL PGCE tutor, Academic Director for secondary PGCE provision, and latterly as Director of the Institute of Education at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, Currently, Anna Lise is Professor of Education at the same institution. She is a National Teaching Fellow and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Anna Lise's tenure as ALL President was from 1st September 2016 - 31st August 2018. In her role as ALL Trustee, Anna Lise serves as the school liaison representative on the executive committee of The University Council For Languages (UCFL). She co-leads ALL’s Learning from the Classroom initiative for members.

Helen Myers teaches Languages at The Ashcombe School in Dorking, Surrey (a Language College since 1998). She is also the ALL London Branch Chair, a former President of ALL and currently on the ALL Management Board. Through her work at The Ashcombe School and ALL, she has helped many teachers across the country in their use ICT in the teaching of languages, and provided constant support to language teachers through moderating forums and resource websites. She combines senior management experience and a national perspective with the realities of teaching across the age and ability range, including AL and GCSE exam classes.

Liz Black enjoyed a successful career as a teacher for over 30 years, 15 as head of languages in two different secondary schools teaching to A-level, and with experience also in primary, and in adult education.

Liz was awarded Advanced Skills Teacher status and worked for 10 years as a cross phase AST; she has also completed consultant leader training at the National College of School Leadership, been a CILT trainer, and Regional Subject Adviser for Links into Languages, under ALL President Kathy Wicksteed’s national lead.

Liz has been a member of ALL for many years, and her passion for teaching languages has been shared far and wide at ALL local and national events, in the pages of Languages Today, and during two periods on ALL Council.
She believes that her work in different sectors, regions and countries over many years has given her a grasp of different teaching approaches and an understanding of Language Teachers’ needs.

Liz Black enjoyed a successful career as a teacher for over 30 years, 15 as head of languages in two different secondary schools teaching to A-level, and with experience also in primary, and in adult education.

Liz was awarded Advanced Skills Teacher status and worked for 10 years as a cross phase AST; she has also completed consultant leader training at the National College of School Leadership, been a CILT trainer, and Regional Subject Adviser for Links into Languages, under ALL President Kathy Wicksteed’s national lead.

Liz has been a member of ALL for many years, and her passion for teaching languages has been shared far and wide at ALL local and national events, in the pages of Languages Today, and during two periods on ALL Council.
She believes that her work in different sectors, regions and countries over many years has given her a grasp of different teaching approaches and an understanding of Language Teachers’ needs.

Kim is Professor of Innovation in Languages Education at the Sheffield Institute of Education, a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a National Teaching Fellow. She is an experienced lecturer and researcher in the field of languages and teacher education and an expert in CLIL.

Her career as an initial teacher trainer started in 2000 at Hull University. Prior to this, Kim taught French and German for 16 years. During her time as a secondary language teacher and senior leader, she was involved in running exchanges and residential visits as well as a number of national curriculum projects. Kim led two national pilots and innovations in MFL teacher education: French Extension Courses, which became known as subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) courses and the secondary Anglo-French bilateral exchange pilot for the Teaching and Development Agency (TDA). In her current role she has established a community of academics and practitioners of CLIL in Anglophone countries and is the conference chair of the Biennial International CLIL conferences hosted in June 2017 and June 2019 at Sheffield Institute of Education.

Anna Lise hosted two Language World conferences during her tenure as President. In 2017 she welcomed delegates to East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, where the conference theme was 'Progress for ALL'. In March 2018 she welcomed delegates to Jurys Inn Hinckley Island in Leicestershire, where the conference theme was 'Flying the Flag for Languages'. During 2017 and 2018 Anna Lise has chaired the Publications Task & Finish Group, a working group of the ALL Council. She has also chaired meetings of the Initial Teacher Education and Training (ITET) forum.

'Languages for all - defining today, transforming tomorrow' expresses some of the passion that Bernardette continues to bring to her advocacy with Speak to the Future.

Pauline's presidential challenge was about 'Grasping the nettles that beset us'. Pauline served as an Invited Trustee for a number of years beyond her presidential tenure.

Kathy's campaigning work on behalf of CLIL is still as vibrant now as it was at 'Language World: Working Together'. She also led the Linked Up project for ALL and served on many ALL Committees and Councils.  Kathy sadly died in 2018.

'Reaching Out' was a suitable theme for Bill's presidency, reflecting his career in forging effective international education links. ALL maintains links with other teachers internationally through  FIPLV, FIPF and  IDV and its close co-operation with cultural agencies and the British Council.

Steven, now an ALL Fellow, is the only person yet to have been President twice; the first time around his theme was 'Motivation  - for all' stressing the importance of teacher motivation, reflected in the current ALL-Literature wiki which he manages.

Steven chose 'Next Steps' as his theme for his second Language World, in the European Year of Languages, exploring issues of learner progression, but also of developing the work of the Association to be more readily available locally. Steven now chairs ALLNE Branch, one of the dozens of Branches, Hubs and Primary Hubs that have taken this idea forward.

Peter's theme of 'Raising Standards' is reflected in his work with the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) and on Language Awareness.

Madeleine's first Language World in York included the introduction of the European programmes (then called Socrates) while her second celebrated European Year of Lifelong Learning.

Margaret's theme 'The Way Ahead: language strategies for the millennium' explored the potential for ICT and the way towards learner autonomy, and her talks always included the importance of diversification of language provision.

Bob's Language World in Edinburgh brought language teachers together with teachers of EFL in the cause of promoting language learning and best practice.