Dr Joseph Lo Bianco, AM, FAHA, FACE, is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne and Chief Investigator, Language, Education and Social Cohesion, Malaysia, Myanmar/Burma and Thailand.
He is former president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Immediate Past and Inaugural President of the Tsinghua, Asia Pacific Forum on Translation and Intercultural Studies and research advisor for LUCIDE, an EC project on Languages in Urban Communities, documenting multilingualism at the municipal level in 12 European cities.
Dr Lo Bianco has 130 publications on language, policy and planning, language education, literacy, culture and identity.
[August 2015]