Dr. Ioannis Karras is a tenured Associate Professor at Ionian University, Greece, and the Assistant Director, Module Coordinator, and Tutor on the TEIL M.Ed. programme of the Hellenic Open University. He has two B.A. in English and Linguistics from the University of Calgary, Canada, an M.Ed. in TEFL from the Hellenic Open University, Greece, an M.Sc. in Intercultural Communication from Warwick University, the U.K. and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Athens. He teaches at the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels and supervises doctoral theses. He has lectured as a visiting professor or as an invited speaker at various universities around the world. His research interests are in the areas of Applied Linguistics and Intercultural Communication in foreign language teaching. Ioannis has delivered numerous talks at international conferences. He has authored a book, a number of edited book chapters and articles in journals and conference proceedings in the areas of applied linguistics and intercultural communication studies.