Lindsay Clandfield is a teacher, teacher trainer and international author from Canada. He is the main author of Macmillan’s new award-winning and critically acclaimed adult course Global (2010) and was a part of the author team for the popular Straightforward series and Skillful. Lindsay has won prestigious recognition for his writing, most notably for Global and Dealing with Difficulties (Delta Publishing, with co-author Luke Prodromou) both of which earned him a visit to Buckingham Palace to receive an award from the Duke of Edinburgh.

Lindsay first began his writing career, after finishing teaching in Mexico, Spain and the UK, with the teachers' resource site, onestopenglish. After winning the Lesson Share competition three times in a row, Lindsay has become a regular on onestopenglish and has since published a number of series on the site, including Survival Guide with co-author Duncan Foord.