John P. O'Regan is Senior Lecturer in Languages in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. His research interests lie in intercultural communication, cultural studies, critical discourse analysis, globalization and the new capitalism, and the development of English in diverse world contexts.

Jane Wilkinson is Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds, UK. She was Chair of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) between 2008 and 2010. Her research focuses on borders and border crossings in contemporary German-speaking culture, and she is the author of Performing the Local and the Global: The Theatre Festivals of Lake Constance (2007) and several articles on cross-border cultural events at the German-Polish border.

Mike Robinson holds the Chair of Cultural Heritage at the University of Birmingham, UK, and is the Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage.