Robert Phillipson

Robert Phillipson is an Emeritus Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. His best-known books are Linguistic imperialism (Oxford University Press 1992), also published in Shanghai and Delhi, and in translation into Arabic and Japanese; English-only Europe? Challenging language policy (Routledge 2003); and Linguistic imperialism continued (Routledge 2009). Recent publications include four volumes on Language Rights, edited with his wife, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, (Routledge 2016), and Why English? Confronting the Hydra, edited with Bunce, Rapatahana, and Tupas (Multilingual Matters 2016). He was awarded the UNESCO Linguapax prize in 2010. He functions as an expert for the European Commission on language policy. For details of CV and publications, see here.