Alpha Publishing Advisory Board Members
In line with our direction, as a leading international solutions provider, to revolutionize the educational industry, we have appointed an Advisory Board to join us in our mission to make this transformation a reality for educators and students around the world.
Our board will provide the expertise, thought leadership and strategic advice that will positively impact the outcomes of our programs and offerings for the education industry globally.
JANET MORRIS
Advisory Board Member
Janet Morris is passionate about education believing that every child should have a great start in life. Janet has a portfolio career within the education sector working in a number of sectors including EdTech, higher education, international schools and English language within a global context.
She has spent 15 years working in the wider education sector – her most recent roles were with part of Cambridge University where she was as a Director of Cambridge International Education which provides education programmes to over 10,000 schools around the world and the Interim Chief Executive of OCR in 2018 during a significant period of change in the assessment sector.
Janet loves adventure – skiing, sailing and scuba diving. She is on a lifelong mission to become fluent in French.
BJORN HASSLER
Advisory Board Member
Björn is the director of Open Development & Education. He is an advocate for international cooperation and development, Global Public Goods, open development practices, Open Access and Open Education and their role in global equity. He specializes in sustainable and scalable approaches for program implementation to improve educational outcomes — across primary, secondary and higher education. His research interests include digital technology (for education and research), teacher professional development, education systems research and equity/inclusion and work-based learning, and the role of multi-loop reflective learning for effective research designs and programming.
Björn is a founding director at the EdTech Hub and a visiting researcher at the Faculty of Education (University of Johannesburg)
MICHAEL CARRIER
Advisory Board Member
Michael Carrier is a former British Council Director who is currently Managing Director of Highdale Consulting, working with a number of educational organisations on the development of language education. He has worked in language education for 40 years as a teacher, trainer, author, and director in Germany, Italy, Poland, UK and USA, and lectured worldwide.
Michael holds an MA in Applied Linguistics and an MBA, and is engaged in both the academic and management aspects of ELT. His former positions include CEO of the International House World schools network; Director, English Language Innovation at the British Council in London; Executive Director of Eurocentres USA, and Director of Strategic Partnerships at Cambridge English.
He has written many ELT coursebooks and professional articles, including the Break into English series, the Front Page series and Business Circles. His area of specialisation is educational technology and his latest book is ‘Digital Language Learning and Teaching’ (Routledge, 2017).
He is currently serving on a number of boards – as Trustee of the TIRF research foundation in the US, Board member of ICC the European Language Network. He is a member of the British Council’s English Language Advisory Group (ELAG), and is also Chair of the UK Government’s Working Group on ELT, part of the Department of International Trade.
He was formerly a Governor of International Students House in London and served on the boards of EAQUALS and ELTJ. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the Society of Authors and the Oxford & Cambridge Club in London.
JANE de LOZEY
Advisory Board Member
Jane de Lozey is the Head of Disputes and Sanctions at the North Sea Transition Authority, the UK regulator for the oil, gas and carbon storage industries. She helps resolve disputes between licensees and holds companies to account on their commitments and regulatory obligations to maintain investor confidence and safeguard public resources at a time of energy transition.
Jane is an experienced leader of multi-disciplinary teams and former Head of Division at the UK’s Serious Fraud Office where she oversaw the SFO’s first Bribery Act prosecution, First Deferred Prosecution Agreement and established the LIBOR investigations. Jane was appointed Diversity Champion and was an executive member of the SFO’s Board.
After qualifying as a lawyer in 1999, Jane worked with the Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team at Eversheds Sutherland LLP and was seconded to The Bloody Sunday Inquiry and the Shipman Inquiry. Motivated by public service and contributing to society, Jane is a natural collaborator and solution finder, who values the creativity of collective and diverse thinking.
Based in her adopted home city of London, Jane enjoys spending time on the tennis court and yoga mat when not in the law courts.
ALI FARGHALY
Advisory Board Member
Ali Farghaly is a Professor of Linguistics and NLP with an international teaching experience and publications. He taught undergraduate and graduate Linguistic and NLP courses in Africa, Asia, and the United States.
In 1985, Ali Farghaly started his academic career as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the English Department at Kuwait University. He was appointed as an Associate Professor of Linguistics in 1989 at the American University in Cairo. In 1995, he was appointed as a Full Professor of Linguistic and the Chairman of the English Department at the Academy of Arts in Giza.
In 1966, Farghaly continued his journey in the United States where he was appointed as a Senior Lecturer of Arabic at the Near Eastern Department of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2000, he moved to the High-Tech industry when he was appointed as a Senior Linguist at YY Software. In 2006, he was appointed as a Senior member of Technical Staff at Oracle Inc. In 2013, he was appointed as a Computational Linguistics Researcher at networked Insights, Chicago. In 2006, he was appointed as a Senior Computational Linguist and the the Lead of the NLP team.
He is interested in natural language understanding (NLU) and creating computer systems that come as close as possible to human interaction using natural language.