John Worne is CEO of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, the UK’s Royal Charter body for linguists and languages. John has lived and worked in different countries and cultures all around the world and spent eight years promoting languages and culture as Director of Strategy at the British Council, the UK’s official body for international education and cultural relations. John also spent five years in senior leadership roles in universities, as a Chief Operating Officer at King’s College London and the Royal College of Art and has worked at the heart of the UK Government as a Director in the Cabinet Office. Prior to this he spent more than a decade working all over the world in business development and marketing, including five years living and working in Paris. A graduate of the University of Oxford, John speaks  French, is improving his Italian and learning Japanese, Chinese and German while studying AI and linguistics in his spare time.