Arturo Tosi was born and raised in Italy but has taught in British universities for many years. He has researched extensively into sociolinguistics, contact-linguistics, translation, multilingualism, language education and language policies in Europe. He has also published widely in the fields of bilingualism and bilingual education. He is Professor of Italian at Royal Holloway, University of London and is Visiting Professor of Sociolinguistics in Italy at the Universita' degli Studi di Siena.