Maria K. Norton has a career spanning 15 years with the British Council across three continents. This has included heading the ELT section in South Korea, directing award-winning partnership-funded projects in Tunisia and, more recently, innovating with blended learning for teachers in Italy. She is passionate about languages and cultures and has just recently relocated to Barcelona, Spain to continue forging connections between cultures, people and languages. Her thought piece A language-rich future for the UK was published in Languages After Brexit (ed Prof. Mike Kelly, 2017). Her special interests include blended learning and Content Language Integrated Learning.