About

Robert Dennis

I am a fully-qualified freelance Business English teacher and communications consultant. I have taught a wide range of professional students including corporate clients from Mondadori, RCS, Sky Italia, UniCredit, Intesa, EMI, Barclays, Marks & Spencers, Guinness and Paribas. I now live and work in Milan, where I teach Business English and edit NetworkMilan.com the online news magazine of the Milan Business English Network.

In addition to my teaching, I work with a number of companies and individuals providing specialist copywriting and editing services. I have written for a wide range of clients in the course of my career, including uSwitch, an online personal finance comparison service; Focus West, a business support agency for London’s digital media sector; and the Governance Hub, a national website for trustees supported by a consortium of leading voluntary organisations and backed by the Home Office.

Before coming to Italy, I lived and worked in London.

I am a graduate of Oxford University, where I read English. As a student journalist I interviewed Julian Barnes (winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for “The Sense of an Ending”) and reviewed the paperback edition of Martin Amis’s “Money”. I also studied Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck College, University of London as a postgraduate student.

I also worked as a researcher and consultant at Burns Owens Partnership, a specialist economic consultancy in London. I speak Italian, French, German and some Spanish.

Find out more about my professional activities on englishMI.com.

Operative Words

Operative Words was a virtual communications and design agency specialising in content for the web and print. Operative Words was founded and run by Robert Dennis.