Botir Djuraev is a senior English teacher at the Scientific-Educational Center of the Academy of Sciences in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He holds an Honors Diploma in the Teaching of English from the Uzbek State World Languages University in Tashkent and has held several positions as English instructor and translator at higher education institutions in Tashkent. He also was the head of the International Relations Department of the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent early in his career. Botir has participated in conferences and training programs in Central Asia, the United States, South Korea, Turkey, and India, and his works on English linguistics and the teaching of English have been published in Uzbekistan, the United States and Europe. In 2003-04 Botir participated in the US Department of State’s Junior Faculty Development Program as a visiting scholar at Arizona State University, where he began working with Ann Koenig of AACRAO on developing AACRAO’s English-language resources on education in Uzbekistan. They have been collaborating on their work in providing information on education in Uzbekistan ever since.