Linda Katherine Newsome is an Academic Consultant and Cross-Cultural Expert with LKN Academic Consultants, UK and USA. Graduating in 2011 with a Doctorate of Education (EdD) in Educational Leadership and Management, and Learning and Teaching from the University of Leicester, she had previously held the positions of Lecturer in Education at both Notre Dame University and American University of Technology in Lebanon.
Paul William Cooper is the Chair Professor of Special Education in the Department of Special Education and Counselling at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He was a Professor at the School of Education at the University of Leicester and had previously held different research and teaching positions in the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford and the University of Birmingham.