Experience
President
Christopher, Smith & Associates LLC
Leadership Consultants
"Dealing with Difference"
E-mail: csa@lava.net

Executive Director
International Association for World Englishes, Inc.

Since 1979:
Graduate Faculty
Japan-America Institute of Management Science
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Since 1985:
Co-Founder and Co-Editor (with B.B. Kachru)
World Englishes: Journal of English as an International and Intranational Language
Blackwell Publishers
Oxford, England, UK

Education

1969 University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language
Emphasis in Sociolinguistics

1962 Arkansas State University
Jonesboro, Arkansas
B.S. in Social Science and English

Research Interests

Leadership and Training of Leaders
World Englishes
English as an International Language
Thai Language, Literature and Culture
International Negotiation
Teacher Training and Curriculum Development

Work Experience

1/1993-6/1999 Dean and Director
Program on Education and Training
East-West Center
1601 East-West Road
Honolulu, Hawaii 96848

1991-1992 Interim Director
Institute of Culture and Communication
East-West Center

1971- 1991 Researcher/Fellow
East-West Center

Language Ability
Understand, speak, and read Thai