Global Language Convention '08

portrait of Katty Kay
Katty Kay - BBC News Correspondent

Katty Kay is a Washington-based correspondent for BBC News and regularly anchors news programs seen on BBC World. Katty grew up in the Middle East and was educated there, where her father was posted as a British diplomat. She studied Modern Languages at Oxford from where she went on to work for a brief period with the Bank of England. A fluent French and Italian speaker with what she describes as “rusty Japanese,” Kay’s unique experience provides her with an informed perspective on Middle Eastern issues and culture few can match. Kay brings this experience to bear on today’s hot-button issues: the War in Iraq and an accompanying endgame for the Middle East; the ramifications of policy in Africa; Asia’s reawakening as an economic powerhouse.

Katty's career with the BBC began in Zimbabwe in 1990 where she started filing radio reports for the Africa service of BBC World Service Radio. Among the stories she covered during her time there were, Zimbabwean land reform and the issue of white farmers, the independence of Namibia and the demise of apartheid in South Africa.

From Africa Katty went on to work as a BBC correspondent in London and later Tokyo reporting on stories including the Kobe earthquake, the gas attack on the Tokyo underground and the beginning of the Japanese economic recession. She settled in Washington in 1996 where she took some time out of broadcast journalism to join the London Times-Washington bureau before returning to the BBC as a freelance journalist in 2002.

Katty is a regular contributor on American network television. She appears frequently on NBC’s Meet the Press and The Chris Matthews Show to comment on United States politics and international affairs. She has also appeared on CNN’s Larry King Live, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, FOX News, CNBC and PBS.

BBC World is the BBC’s commercially funded 24-hour international news and information channel and is available in over 254 million households worldwide. In the United States, BBC World’s News programs are available through cable and satellite on BBC America and via public television across the country.

portrait of Colin Baker
Colin Baker - Professor of Education

Dr .Colin Baker is Professor of Education at the University of Wales, Bangor. He is the author of 15 books and over 50 articles on bilingualism and bilingual education, with specific interests in language planning and bilingual education.

His textbook ‘Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism’ (Multilingual Matters, 1993, 1996, 2001, 2006), now in preparation for its 5th edition, has sold over 50,000 copies and has been translated into Japanese, Spanish, Latvian, Greek and Mandarin. In 1994, the first edition won a prize as “Best Book of 1993 by an established author” (Standing Conference in Education).

portrait of Myria Met
Myriam (Mimi) Met - Senior Research Associate, National Foreign Language Center

"Preparing Students for a Flat World" A keynote speech focusing on the importance of linguistic and intercultural competence in ensuring our students can take their place as leaders, workers, and citizens in the 21st century.

Dr. Myriam Met is a Senior Research Associate, and former Acting Director, at the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland, where her work focuses strategic support for K-12 programs for foreign language learners and for students learning English. Her previous positions include supervisor of foreign language programs, English for Speakers of Other Languages, and bilingual education for major urban and suburban school districts, including responsibility for designing, implementing, and supervising a variety of immersion program models. She was one of the founders of the Ohio Association for Bilingual Education, the founder and first president of the National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages; a founding member, and later president, of the National Network for Early Language Learning; and currently serves on the Executive Council of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.



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