Davide Guarini Gilmartin is British Council Vietnam's English for Education Systems (EES) Academic Manager. He is a teacher educator with more than 22-years experience. He has been living in Hanoi, Vietnam since 1999 and has worked with British Council since 2003. He holds a BA (Honours) in Town & Country Planning, a Trinity Certificate TESOL and a Cambridge DELTA. He has extensive experience of teacher development projects across East Asia, having designed and delivered numerous courses and workshops for British Council projects (e.g. Access English, Active Citizens, Academic Teaching Excellence (ATE), Connecting Classrooms, English for Teaching, ERIC, Primary Innovations, Teaching for Success, Thailand Regional English Training Centre (RETC), VTTN) in China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Peru, Thailand, and Vietnam.  He also has experience as an IELTS examiner and a Cambridge ESOL Oral Examiner Team Leader. Prior to entering the education sector, he spent eight years working in the UK local government sector as an urban and policy planner.