Christopher N. Candlin was Senior Research Professor in Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He researched in discourse analysis and pragmatics especially in the contexts of public institutions and professions. He held Professorships in Applied Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK, The City University of Hong Kong and The UK Open University, and Honorary Professorships at the Universities of Lancaster, Nottingham and Cardiff, UK, and at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He was President of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA). He published widely in Applied Linguistics and sat on the Editorial Boards of several major journals in the field.