Obaidul Hamid is Associate Professor of TESOL Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research focuses on the policy and practice of TESOL education in developing societies. He is a co-editor of Current Issues in Language Planning and looks after special theme and polity issues. He also sits on the editorial boards of Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of Education, English Teaching Practice & Critique, Journal of Asia TEFL, and Asiatic.