Originally from the United Kingdom, Peter Coan is an international educator, trainer, and technical writer with over twenty years of professional experience, designing and delivering top-quality courses and training materials targeted to an audience of any age group and any level of English proficiency. He has experience tutoring students of all levels from a variety of countries and backgrounds, from kindergarten up to university professors.

In the classroom, he is known to be flexible, employing a student-centered approach, based on dialogue rather than lecturing wherever possible. His egalitarian teaching style tends to generate an honest, humorous, friendly, two-way flow of information, which is highly conducive to real learning.

Mr. Coan serves as the Study Abroad Journal's textual analyst and editor.