Deepesh Chandrasekharan has been teaching at Shiv Nadar University Chennai for over three years now. He has post-graduate degrees in Linguistics (JNU, New Delhi) and English (University of Madras), and a PhD in English Language Education from the EFL University, Hyderabad. He taught English in well-known schools in Delhi and Doha-Qatar for eleven years before his PhD. He then taught at SSN College of Engineering Chennai for three years before joining the CLIL@India Erasmus+ project as its Executive Director. He visited the US on the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) on the theme, ‘Implementing National English Curricula in Multilingual Contexts’. He has also completed Cambridge’s CELTA with a CELTA B. His research interests have centred around issues of language and power including multilingualism, critical pedagogy, language policy and teaching in disadvantaged contexts. He has several publications and has trained teachers for over ten years.