Bessie Dendrinos is Professor Emeritus of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, taught and carried out research at the Department of Language and Linguistics of the Faculty of English, where she is presently Director of the Research Centre for Language Teaching, Testing and Assessment. She is the author of The Hegemony of English (co-authored with Macedo and Gounari), a book that has been translated in several languages and received the 2004 American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Critics' Choice Award. President of the Board for the national foreign language examinations in Greece, a multilingual examination suite known as the KPG, she is project director of the IFLC project, which resulted in the new state school curriculum for languages in Greece that has recently been recognized as 'best practice example' for the implementation of the principles of the Common European Framework of Languages (Council of Europe). As of 2015 she is President of the European Civil Society Platform for Multilingualism.