Ute Smit is Professor of English Linguistics and Circle U. Academic Chair (Multilingualism, Interculturality, Language) at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research focuses on English and multilingualism in and around the classroom in various educational settings. Her publications deal with EME (English Medium Education), CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), ELF (English as a lingua franca) and multilingualism in classroom discourse, language policies and practices. Ute is a member of various international projects and presently the chair of the ICLHE (Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education) Association. For more information see https://homepage.univie.ac.at/ute.smit/