Jean Côté is a professor in and director of the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University at Kingston in Canada. His research interests are in the areas of sport expertise, children in sport, coaching, and positive youth development. Dr. Côté holds a cross appointment as a visiting professor in the School of Human Movement Studies at the University of Queensland in Australia. He has published several influential papers on a variety of sport expertise, youth sport, and coaching topics. Dr. Côté is regularly invited to present his work to both sport governing organizations and at academic conferences throughout the world. Dr. Côté was a co-editor of the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology from 2008–2011. He is presently, or has been, on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, The Sport Psychologist, the International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, the Asian Journal in Exercise and Sport Science, Revue International des Sciences du Sport et de l’Education Physique, and Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. In 2009, Dr. Côté was the recipient of the fourth EW Barker Professorship from the Physical Education and Sport Science Department at the National Institute of Education in Sinpapore. He enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, and likes to play ice hockey, tennis, golf, and racquetball.