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Course Leader: Mark Powell

Mark is one of the world's leading Business English teachers, teacher trainers and materials writers.

As a teacher he has worked with international companies as diverse as Siemens, Pioneer, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Iveco, The Swiss Bank Corporation, Nomura, Akzo Nobel, Alcatel, CEPSA and Arthur Andersen (pre-meltdown!). He was for two years Director of Studies for executive courses at a flagship school of the global International House organisation.

As a teacher trainer Mark has worked with teachers from over thirty different countries. He has run the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry Certificate in Teaching English for Business (LCCI CertTEB) in Barcelona, Budapest, Hamburg, Rio de Janeiro and Vienna as well as the UK, lending his own unique style of high-energy training to Europe's premier Business English teachers' qualification.

As a materials writer Mark is the author of Thomson-Heinle's highly successful Business Matters (1996), Presenting in English (1996) and New Business Matters (2004). He is also the author of Macmillan's bestselling In Company Intermediate (2002) and In Company Upper Intermediate (2004).

A popular presenter at many international conferences, Mark has spoken, often as a keynote speaker, all over Europe and the Americas to teachers and trainers as well as sales and marketing personnel.

Mark graduated in English from Oxford University and has occasionally been persuaded to perform Shakespeare's 'Greatest Hits' for participants on his teacher development courseattendance is optional! He lives in Barcelona with his wife Begoña