Professor Christine C. M. Goh

Christine Goh is the Director of the National Institute of Education (NIE), a University Institute of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She steers the development and implementation of NIE policies and strategies for excellence and growth in education programmes, research, talent development and professional culture. She leads NIE in working closely with the Ministry of Education to support the country’s aspirations for teachers, school leaders, students and schools. As a member of NTU’s leadership, Christine is a member of the NTU2025 strategic plan steering committee. Christine previously served as a University Senator and a member of the NTU Advisory Board. She was the immediate past Chairperson (2018-2021) of the Association of Southeast Asian Teacher Education Network (AsTEN), which consists of teacher education institutes from ASEAN countries. Christine is also President’s Chair Professor in Education (Linguistics and Language Education). She works in the field of Applied Linguistics specialising in the domain of bilingual and second language learning. She is a widely-cited scholar of high international standing. Her work is characterised by a strong research-theory-practice nexus that speaks to both language educators and researchers. Christine has taught and led various undergraduate, pre-service, in-service and graduate programmes in linguistics and language education. As a research mentor, she has graduated over 30 Masters and PhD students. She was a co-editor of two Routledge education journals: Asia Pacific Journal of Education and Pedagogies, and currently sits on the editorial board of several applied linguistics journals and book series.