Ruairi is an English teacher who has been teaching several uses of English to several kinds of students for over 10 years now, and China is the fourth different country he has worked in. Born in Holland but raised in Ireland, he graduated from Dublin City University with a BA in Journalism and worked as a journalist for two years before completing the TEFL English Language Teaching Certificate. He worked previously as an Academic English lecturer (writing, listening, and speaking) at the Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, as well as working for the British Council as an IELTS examiner in Beijing.