Robert Phillipson is an Emeritus Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. British by origin, he studied at Cambridge and Leeds Universities in the United Kingdom, and has a doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. He worked for the British Council in Algeria, Yugoslavia, and London, before emigrating to Denmark in 1973. His books have been published in a dozen countries. In addition to a primary concern with linguistic imperialism, the expansion of English worldwide, and language pedagogy, he has functioned as an expert for the European Union assessing research on multilingualism and cultural diversity. His book "English-only Europe? Challenging language policy" (Routledge, 2003) was updated and translated into French as "La domination de l’anglais: un défi pour l’Europe" (Libre & Solidaire, 2019). He has co-edited books on language policy, multilingual education, and language rights jointly with scholars from India, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, often with his wife, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, among them "Why English? Confronting the Hydra" (2016) and "Language Rights" (four volumes, 2017). He was awarded the UNESCO Linguapax prize in 2010. He and Tove are editing a "Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights" for Wiley-Blackwell, for publication in 2020. For details see www.cbs.dk/en/staff/rpmsc.
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