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Languages

Diploma in conference interpreting for German (A) and English (B), i.e. I interpret form German into English and vice versa.

Specialisation

This is only a small selection of my approx. 200 assignments in the last two years and gives you an impression of the diversity of topics that I have been dealing with.

I have not listed all my assignments for German government ministries or the parliament, among these also delegation visits, approx. 20 to 25 days in the last two years.

Politics & Human Rights

• "25 Years of Welthungerhilfe in Afghanistan", Roundtable
• "Sea rescue in the central Mediterranean", Parliamentary Breakfast
• Exhibition opening "China is not far" and ceremony to mark 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall in the Berlin House of Representatives
• "CONNECT - Welcome structure meets self-organisation"
• Expert discussion at the Federal Ministry of Labor on the OECD report on Germany
• Delegation of the National Population and Talent Division (Singapore) on family and labour policy
• Press conference on the International Human Rights Day + online discussions with students on Amnesty International's annual letter marathon
• TV assignments in the context of the German Bundestag Elections
• 10th Anniversary of the UN VGTTs, event of Welthungerhilfe
• Presentation of the World Hunger Index (WHI)
• "From darkfield to brightfield - perspectives, opportunities and challenges for detecting racisms", Competence Network for the Prevention of Islamophobia and Muslimophobia

Council of Europe

• "#NotInMyParliament - ending sexual abuse in parliaments"
• Visit to Germany by GRETA to combat human trafficking
• Delegation visit on the protection of national minorities
• Visit to Germany by the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe
• Election observation in Berlin by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities

Law

• Anniversary 50 Years of VG Bild-Kunst
• "75 Years of Basic Law: Is the federal state still up to date?" by the Forum of Federations
• Annual conference "International tax legislation"
• Annual international copyright conference of the Initiative Urheberrecht (authors' rights initative)
• Depositions
• Meetings with U.S. Border Patrol and Customs Authorities on the topic of migration
• "International Criminal Law: The first trial for the genocide of Yazidis in German Courts"

Medicine

• User seminar ceramic implants and biological dentistry
• Various assignments on the German Drug Market Reorganization Act (AMNOG) and the German Drug Benefit Assessment Ordinance (AM-NutzenV): advisory meetings (about 15 per year), hearings of the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA), price negotiations, arbitration proceedings
• Digital Health: Presentation of research results
• "Fascination Laser", laser dentistry
• Regular management webcasts for a large German pharmaceutical company
• Event of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) on the recruitment of specialists

Education & Society

• "The relevant museum - audience development strategies"
• "Fake news? Role and responsibility of the media" (journey with journalists)
• "Between social disciplining and pleasure: politics and practices of play in state socialism", Hermann Weber conference
• "Luxury communism"
• "Digital participation for all"
• "Advice, information and cost coverage for contraception"
• "We are here, we are loud! United against the backlash" by Women7 and the German Women's Council
• Numerous public events in the Humboldt Forum
• Digital learning journeys by the German Children and Youth Foundation

Business & Finance

• "Innovation funding"
• Works council meeting of a telephone marketing provider
• Regular townhall meetings of the Shared Service Center of a major German chemical company
• European works council meetings
• World Economic Forum in Davos
• XXXIst International Symposium of the ISSA Construction Section (occupational safety and health)
• Events on gambling, online betting & slot machines
• Monthly management meetings of an international logistics company

Energy & Environment

• Journalist delegations on nuclear energy (Gorleben), lignite (Lusatia) and hard coal (Northrhine-Westphalia), smart mobility (Stuttgart) and gas supply (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
• Facility visits, regular management briefings, annual press conference of a major gas, oil and carbon management company

Agriculture & Urban Development

• Accompanying an agricultural delegation from the USA as part of a guest program of the Federal Foreign Office
• 100 years of Bauhaus (experts meeting during a fact-finding tour)
• Healthy food for the city, Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
• „SMART.MEGA.CITIES"
• "Making Cities Resilient" of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Work experience

Since 2009
Freelance conference interpreter

2005-2009
Head of Interpreting and Translation Services and staff interpreter, Governing Mayor of Berlin

2002-2004
Lecturer for conference interpreting, Vilnius University (Lithuania)

2002-2004
Correspondent of the n-ost journalist network (reporting on Central and Eastern Europe)

Education and training

1995-2001
School of Translation and Interpreting, Heidelberg University
Major: Conference Interpreting for English and French (German: mother tongue), Minor: Law

1999
Ottawa University, Exchange programme of the international student association AIESEC

1996-1997
Ecole de Traduction et d'Interprétation (ETI), Geneva University
Study abroad programme

Participation in the following training courses

Interpreting

• English Pronunciation Enhancement
• Stress und Resource Management for Conference Interpreters
• Improved Reading

Commitment

2009-2011
Officer for young talent promotion and co-ordinator of mentoring programme within the German Conference Interpreters' Association VKD

2014-2016
Press Officer of the German region of the International Association of Conference Interpreters AIIC

2020-2022
Mentor as part of the mentoring programme within the German Conference Interpreters' Association VKD

Since 2020
Member of the German Association of Founders and Self-Employed Persons VGSD e.V.

Since 2022
Member of the legal committee of the International Association of Conference Interpreters AIIC