Dr. Browne is Professor of Applied Linguistics & TESOL in the English Department of Meiji Gakuin University and was Director of their MA and PhD programs from 2022-2024. He is a specialist in Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition and Extensive Reading, especially as they apply to online learning environments, and has written dozens of articles, books, and EFL textbooks over his 30+ years in Japan. In addition to his work on the NGSL Project, he has also developed many free online ER/EL and vocabulary learning sites, tools and apps, working hard to share this knowledge through presentations, seminars and hand-on workshops around the world. A frequent keynote and plenary speaker at international conferences, he is happy to speak at your event as well!

He is also Director of CBC Consulting, a consulting company with expertise in online language learning content and curriculum creation, app and platform development and the construction of online testing and assessment tools.

Dr. Brent Culligan is an instructor at Aoyama Gakuin University and co-creator of the NGSL Project word lists. He developed the NGSL Placement Test, co-authored the In Focus textbook series, and has published research on word difficulty and vocabulary assessment. His NGSL puzzle workbooks are available through the Lingua Eruditio store.

With over 30 years of experience in teaching English as a second language, Joseph Phillips has brought a passion for education to prestigious institutions in Tokyo. Former professor and coordinator of the award-winning English Language program at Aoyama Gakuin Women's Junior College, Joseph continues this passion with the NGSL project. As a former lawyer, Joseph maintains an interest in copyright issues as they pertain to EFL materials development.