Amy Bik May Tsui is Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice President of The University of Hong Kong. She concurrently holds the position of Chair Professor in the Faculty of Education.  She obtained her PhD in linguistics in 1986 at The University of Birmingham, U.K. and has published widely in the areas of teacher education, classroom discourse, discourse analysis, and language policy. She serves on the Advisory and Editorial Boards of a number of international refereed journals, and has given keynote/plenary presentations in a number of international conferences in Asia and Europe. She is a founding member and a Council member of Asia TEFL. Her most recent books include Understanding Expertise in Teaching – case studies of ESL teachers, (2003, Cambridge University Press); Classroom Discourse and the Space of Learning, (2004, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (LEA) co-authored with Ference Marton); Medium of Instruction Policies – Which Agenda? Whose Agenda? (2004) and Language Policy, Culture, and Identity in Asian Contexts (2007), (both co-edited with James W. Tollefson and published by LEA, now Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group). Her latest book, Learning in School-University Partnership: Sociocultural Perspectives (published by Routledge, co-authored with Gwyn Edwards and Francis Lopez-Real) will be out in October 2008.