Professor Alexandra Esimaje is a Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics, and the Executive Director of the Centre for Language Research and English Proficiency (CLAREP) as well as the Director of Research and International Programmes in Benson Idahosa University, Nigeria.
Professor Dr. Josef Schmied is the Chair of the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany, and collaborator on the "Academic Writing for Africa: the Journal Article Workshop".