Julie Dearden is the Director of Oxford EMI, UK which provides professional development courses in EMI for university academics. She was a lecturer at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. Julie writes on EMI, the global phenomenon, the changing roles of academics and teachers in an EMI context. Julie was Senior Research Fellow in EMI at Oxford University from 2013-16 and in the Oxford research team publishing a systematic review of EMI in HE in 2018. She is the author of the first global overview of EMI: EMI a Growing Global Phenomenon published in 2015 including her well-known definition of EMI as "The use of the English language to teach academic subjects in countries or jurisdictions where the first language (L1) of the population is not English"