Adina Panait has a PhD from “Babeș-Bolyai” University (with a focus on Genre analysis applied to academic writing). Her academic and professional activities include oral examinations for the Cambridge suite of exams, academic coordination at PROSPER- ASE Language Centre, as well as English language (ESP) teaching as an assistant lecturer at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Her research interests include ESL learners’ development of ESP and EAP communication competences, as well as the academics’ professional development in Higher Education, with a focus on EMI programmes, Legal English and Teaching Romanian as a foreign language.