Robert Phillipson is an Emeritus Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. British by origin, for many years he was employed at the University of Roskilde, where the pedagogy was problem-centered multi-disciplinary projects. He also worked for the British Council in Algeria, Yugoslavia, and London, before emigrating to Denmark in 1973. His main books are Linguistic Imperialism (Oxford University Press, 1992), English-only Europe? Challenging language policy (Routledge, 2003), and Linguistic imperialism continued (Routledge, 2009). He has co-edited books on language rights and multilingual education, including Why English? Confronting the Hydra (2016) and four volumes of Language Rights, with his wife, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. Having lectured worldwide and had lengthy involvement in issues of language education in southern Africa and India, he was awarded the UNESCO Linguapax prize in 2010. He studied at Cambridge and Leeds Universities, and has a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam.