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Meet the team

We are passionate about language teaching.

Our team is carefully selected and made up of experienced academic managers and qualified English language teachers, who are trained to understand the needs of international students. Most importantly, we are all enthusiastic and interested in languages. Most of our team speaks two or three languages fluently.

Core members of the team.

Elena Logara-Panteli

Elena Logara-Panteli

Admissions and Accommodation Officer

Elena Logara-Panteli

Elena holds a Linguistics and Languages degree from Birkbeck College London and is trilingual in English, German and Greek. 

She cofounded Lexis in 2010. She is the Admissions and Accommodation Officer and also helps with student welfare. She is the heart of the school and loves talking to people about how to improve their English. If she had the time she would learn a new language every year.

Steve Austin

Steve Austin

Director of studies

Steve Austin

Steve is the Director of Studies and is in charge of academic matters at Lexis. He holds a postgraduate MA degree in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics from Kings College London and has over 25 years’ experience in teaching English in Turkey, Greece, Italy and the UK. He is a native English speaker and also speaks advanced Italian and intermediate German.  

He is our music guru (ask him anything about music!) and is ‘trying’ to learn to play the guitar in his spare time. He loves to explore new places you never knew existed.

Terry Panteli

Terry Panteli

School Director

Terry Panteli

Terry is also a school director and co-founded Lexis in 2010.

He is in overall charge of both the academic and business aspects of the school. He holds a postgraduate MA degree from University College London in History & Linguistics and trained as an English teacher at Kings College London.  He was a university lecturer in London at the School of Oriental & African Studies-University of London and is bilingual in English & Greek, has a basic knowledge of Spanish (with great pronunciation!), and a profound knowledge of the works of Bruce Springsteen.

I've been studying here for 12 weeks and I want to improve my English skills for business. I can make very much friends. They are all very nice guys and girls. I had a really nice time. (Shuji from Japan)

Houses of Parliament & Big Ben, London

Our corporate clients include:

Lexis School of English