Professor Gilly Salmon is founder and CEO of Education Alchemists – a company formed around her life’s work including Carpe Diem learning design methodology, pedagogical transformation, online teaching, technology enhanced learning, the 5 stage model and e-tivities. Gilly spent 30 years in the university sector, in the UK and Australia as Professor (Education Futures) and Pro Vice-Chancellor, as well as two years as academic director in an OPM in London.

Previously, she was Professor of Innovation and Transformation at the University of Liverpool Management School and Pro Vice-Chancellor of Education Innovation, at the University of Western Australia, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Learning Transformations at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia and before that, Executive Director and Professor (Learning Futures) at the Australian Digital Futures Institute, University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Previously she was Professor of E-learning and Learning Technologies, and Head of the Beyond Distance Research Alliance and the Media Zoo, at the University of Leicester in the UK, and prior to that with the UK Open University Business School.