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Rod is committed to providing an excellent environment for acquiring and perfecting the use of English for personal enrichment or career advancement. Continuing education of adults for more than 25 years, including cross-cultural immersion in locations as varied as rural Quebec, central California and urban Europe. CELTA completed in 1998.

Diana worked as a high-school teacher in Sydney before moving to Italy where she first started working as a freelance English trainer. She moved to Munich in 1995 and has been doing in-company training courses since then. She is currently enjoying her work as a university teacher at the LMU.

Sarah has been teaching English in Munich since 2004 and loves it here! She’s taught at various schools and businesses and now the university and she’s also a writer for Langenscheidt. She enjoys being a part of MELTA because of the support from fellow teachers and sense of community it offers.

Lisa was born and raised in Munich and has been teaching English since the early 90s. She is a trained interpreter and translator for English, German and French, and did an MA in Political Science. When she's not writing for Haufe Verlag, you'll find her outside on the water or in the mountains, or indoors on the basketball field or the Gyrotonic machine.

Helen is from the northeast of England and moved to Ingolstadt in 1999 to work as a Business English Trainer at Audi Akademie. She now works on a freelance basis in both corporate and academic environments. She takes a keen interest in the use of technology in teaching and is also the editor of Business Spotlight in the Classroom. To get away from it all she likes to head to the mountains, either with her snowboard or her motorbike.

Claire Conroy worked as an engineer in England and France before becoming a freelance English teacher, teaching mainly in-company.  Since arriving in March 2010 she has been getting to grips with her new career, Germany and, most importantly, German. She enjoys reading, cooking and travelling, and thinks the best thing about Germany is Kaffee & Kuchen :)

Fabiola came to Germany from Colorado, USA where she got her B.A.in Foreign Language Teaching and was working in public and private schools. She has been teaching English in Munich since 1980.  She enjoys all activities that are related to language learning and foreign cultures.

Farah has been living in Munich for about one and half years. Originally from the outskirts of London, she obtained her B.A.in History before moving to Germany. Her move to Munich was shortly followed by her association with MELTA. She is head of the English Department at a medium-sized language school in Munich. Farah is relishing the prospect of being involved in MELTA, especially helping coordinating events along with Helen.   

In 1980 Kate left northeast England to come to Germany for two years in 1980, where, apart from a two-year stint in Canada, she’s been ever since. She left the “glamour” of the fashion business to take her CELTA in 2009 and now teaches VHS and in-company. Because MELTA has played an instrumental role in her new career path, Kate looks forward to becoming involved in committee activities, whatever shape or form they take! 

John comes from the UK and has been teaching English in Munich since the early 80s. He runs a small team of trainers who teach in-company courses. He has co-authored several EFL course books and is an administrator of a forum for English Teachers in Germany: http://elt.yuku.com.

Kate Eden, an architect in a former (and seemingly ever more distant) life is usually active in the field of Business English, though teaching English to young children seems to be a new path on the horizon.  She's currently on a short career 'break' to tend full-time to daughter no. 2.  As editor of MELTA News she'd be delighted to receive articles and anecdotes with some link to the world of ELT - any time of the year, not just in a mad panic before the printing deadline!

Joan Walsh is from Ireland and works as an English trainer in companies. She enjoys attending workshops and seminars in order to stay abreast of the most up-to-date trends in language-teaching and technology.

On holidays, she likes to travel and learn about everything connected with people, culture and language.