Meet the team
We are passionate about language teaching. Our team is carefully selected. Our teachers and academic managers are experienced, highly qualified language experts. Our administrators 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.
Terry Panteli
School Director
Terry Panteli
Terry is one of the school directors. He co founded Lexis in 2007, and manages the business aspects of the school and assists the academic team.
He holds a postgraduate degree from University College London in History & Linguistics. He speaks English & Greek fluently and has a very basic knowledge of Spanish.
He trained as an English teacher at Kings College London and has many years experience as an English language teacher and a university lecturer in Greece and in London.
Elena Logara-Panteli
School Director and Accommodation Officer
Elena Logara-Panteli
Elena is one of the school directors.
She helps to coordinate and manage all the language courses at Lexis; ensuring that academic excellence is maintained at all times.
She holds a Linguistics and Languages degree from Birkbeck College London and has years of experience as a language teacher in Germany, Greece and England. She trained as an English language teacher at University College London.
She oversees the accommodation we offer our international students.
She co founded Lexis in 2007. She speaks Greek, German and English fluently.
Steve Austin
Director of studies
Steve Austin
Steve is the Director of Studies at Lexis.
He is a very experienced English language teacher.
He holds the Cambridge DELTA and also a postgraduate degree in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics from Kings College London - MA ELT & Applied Linguistics.
He has over 20 years experience in English teaching in Turkey, Greece, Italy and the UK.
He has taught various courses at Lexis, including Business English and many private English for Specific Purposes courses at Lexis.
He speaks fluent English, advanced Italian and intermediate German.
Natalie Chisnall
Admissions/ Office Manager
Natalie Chisnall
Natalie is the Admissions/ Office Manager. She will help you to register at our school. She has been a member of the management team for 2 years. She holds a postgraduate degree in English and Geography and has taught English in the Czech Republic. She also has experience in the airline industry as a personal assistant and in customer relations. She speaks English, Czech and Slovak fluently, can understand Polish and is an elementary speaker of Spanish.
Constantine Baxter (Con)
Senior English Language Teacher
Constantine Baxter (Con)
Constantine is our senior English language teacher. He holds a doctorate in English from Queen Mary College, London University and has many years experience as an English language teacher and a university lecturer at Colchester Institute, Hendon (now Barnet) College, Middlesex University, Rhodes University (Grahamstown South Africa) and Westminster Kingsway College. He has been teaching at Lexis for over 5 years and advises on academic matters. He is a native English speaker, can understand French and has a basic knowledge of Greek.
