Alan MackenzieNILE Consultant Trainer

Alan taught in private language school and tertiary sectors in Japan for 15 years, before moving to British Council as a project manager across East and South Asia. He has helped improve teaching quality among hundreds of thousands of teachers and teacher educators through large scale development projects at state level in India (West Bengal, New Delhi, Haryana, Maharashtra) and in Pakistan, as director of the 5 million GBP DfID funded Punjab Education and English Language Initiative.

As Academic Director at NILE he designed the Developing Learner Autonomy module for the MAPDLE programme and is still the Module Leader. He has been a Director of JALT, advisor to the boards of Thailand TESOL, Philippines Association for Language Teaching, Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers, English Language Teacher’s Association of India and Africa ELTA.

As a founding director of Transform ELT, he has worked with multiple state ministries of education around the world including evaluating the PRESETT, and developing the school mentoring projects in Ukraine, developing a curriculum for tourism in Georgia, introducing CEFR in Cuba, evaluating the Ceibal project in Uruguay, developing life skills toolkits for Tunisia, running CLIL courses for France and evaluating a programme for gifted children in Kuwait.

He is now director of Mackenzie Education, a consultancy designing, developing, implementing and evaluating large scale change projects globally: online, face-to-face, and blended.