The advisory committee to the MTB-MLE Network was officially launched in October 2012 with the purpose of providing expert advice on multilingual education issues in relation to various groups of interest including NGOs, education practitioners, donors and other researchers. We are excited about the opportunity to collaborate with the committee members in providing fresh and innovative as well as empirically and theoretically grounded perspectives on MTB-MLE initiatives. Each of the committee members are knowledge leaders in their field and bring expertise in education, applied linguistics, literacy and child development.