Hywel Coleman OBE is an honorary senior research fellow in the School of Education at the University of Leeds, UK. He is also one of the Trustees of the Language and Development Conference series. Though of Welsh origin and born in the UK, he is now a permanent resident of Indonesia. Mr. Coleman is currently investigating the language repertoires and attitudes of scholars in the pesantren (traditional Islamic madrasahs) of Indonesia and in 2018 he is expecting to lead a study into the condition of English in multilingual Afghanistan. He is interested in language planning and policy, with a particular focus on the relations between international, national and local languages. He has undertaken consultancy work in 30 countries in Asia and Africa, most recently in Morocco, Gabon and Pakistan. He has authored and edited 12 books, including four volumes of proceedings of the Language & Development Conferences. He holds master's degrees from the Universities of Oxford and Lancaster, a teaching qualification from the University of Leicester, and a final diploma in Indonesian from the Institute of Linguists.