Left to Right: Jessica Wu, David Qian, He Lianzhen, Jin Yan, Antony John Kunnan,
Yong-Won Lee, Yasuyo Sawaki. Photo taken during LTRC, Amsterdam, June 2014
AALA Executive Board, 2026–2027
President:
Yasuyo Sawaki, Waseda University
Co-President:
Jason Fan, University of Melbourne
First Vice President:
Yong-Won Lee, Seoul National University
Second Vice President:
Mingwei Pan, Shanghai International Studies University
Immediate Past President:
Thi Ngoc Quynh Nguyen, VNU University of Languages and International Studies
Secretary:
Jing Zhang, Yunnan University
Treasurer:
Keita Nakamura, Tohoku University
Communications Officer:
Yasuhiro Imao, The University of Osaka
Member-at-Large:
Ying Chen, Ocean University of China
Shangchao Min, Zhejiang University
Limei Zhang, Nanyang Technological University
Senior Advisors
Hossein Farhady, Yeditepe University
Rama Mathew, Delhi University
Randy Thrasher, International Christian University
Fellows
Lyle F. Bachman, University of California, Los Angeles
Alister Cumming, University of Toronto
Barry O’Sullivan, British Council
David Carless, University of Hong Kong
Nominating Committee, 2026–2027
Alan Urmston, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Chair)
Chao Han, National University of Singapore
Emily Di Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Niles Zhao, Nanyang Technological University
Student Committee, 2026
Co-chairs:
Meng-Hsun (Hunter) Lee, University of Toronto
Lugeng Sun, Chulalongkorn University
Immediate Past Co-chairs:
Sao Bui, The University of Melbourne
Chenyang Zhang, The University of Melbourne
Secretary:
Feiya (Sophia) Xiao, University of Macau
Public Relations Officer:
Ryuhei Mizoguchi, Waseda University
Committee Members:
Yuxin Peng, University of Macau
Hetian Yu, Education University of Hong Kong
Han Lai, University of Toronto
Minkyung Kim, Seoul National University
Tram Pham, Lancaster University
Wen Xing, Durham University
Yichen Jia, Nanyang Technological University
Past Student Committee Members
Regional Representatives
Junifer Abatayo, Sohar University
Christine Coombe, Dubai Men’s College
Young Shik Lee, Hannam University
Rongchan Lin, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University
Keita Nakamura
Bjorn Norrbom, National Center for Assessment in Higher Education
Mingwei Pan, Shanghai International Studies University
Pitambar Paudel, Tribhuvan University, Prithvi Narayan campus
Anusha Ramanathan, Tata Institute of Social Science
K. N. Shoba, Anna University
Limei Zhang, Nanyang Technological University
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