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Senior Management 

Mark Anderson, President
Mark Anderson Mark Anderson is President, Global Strategy & Business Development, Pearson International. Since October 2007 he has also been President of the Language Testing division. He first worked for Pearson in the period 1984-1997 in the UK and Hong Kong, latterly running a regional professional publishing & information business. For ten years he worked in consumer goods and technology businesses, before rejoining Pearson in April 2007. He was educated at Cambridge University and received an MBA from Ashridge Business School.

Emma Stubbs, Senior Vice President, Language Testing
Emma Stubbs Emma Stubbs joined us in June 2008. Prior to joining Pearson, Emma was Global IELTS Manager at the British Council in London for four years. Before that Emma held management positions with the British Council in China over a period of six years and was heavily involved in the development of IELTS in the China market. She holds a BA Honours degree in Linguistics and French from the University of York, a postgraduate diploma in Chinese from Durham University and the Advanced Certificate of Marketing Management from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Professor Dr. John de Jong, Vice President, Test Development
John de Jong Professor Dr. John de Jong has been Vice President, Test Development since 2006. He is also professor of language testing at VU University Amsterdam. John graduated in General Linguistics, French and English languages from Leiden University and obtained a Ph.D. in Educational Measurement from Twente University. He has published numerous articles and books on language acquisition and assessment and on educational measurement. He has specialized in empirical scaling of language proficiency and promotes the development of internationally standardized reporting scales of language proficiency. He was involved from the start in developing the Common European Framework for Languages.

David Booth, Director, Test Development 
David Booth David Booth joined as Director Test Development in March 2009. Prior to this David worked for 10 years in a number of professional and managerial positions at Cambridge ESOL, a part of Cambridge Assessment. David has extensive academic management, teaching and teacher training experience working for the British Council in South Korea, Hong Kong and Malaysia. David has a Masters Degree in Education, from the Institute of Education, London University, and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

David Fulker, Vice President, Technology & Operations
David Fulker David Fulker has been Vice President, Technology & Operations for PLT since October 2008. Prior to joining the business, David held a senior technical operations role in a technology and multi-media business which had a strong emphasis on service and support. Before that he developed significant experience through building and running technical service operations, business process planning and implementation, project management and building IT infrastructures. His career started in electronics engineering.

Carl Rhymer, Global Sales Director
Carl Rhymer joined Pearson in 2011 from the British Council, where he worked for 19 years. Carl has extensive global examinations and assessment experience. In his last role as Head of UK Qualifications he was responsible for the development and management of the British Council's examinations activity globally. Prior to this role he headed up the Council's IELTS division, leading on strategy development and partner relations. Carl has worked in Egypt, Pakistan, South Africa and Colombia.
 
 
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